Hillary Clinton was born on
October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois, going on to earn her law degree from
Yale University. She married fellow law school graduate in 1975. She
later served as first lady from 1993 to 2001, and then as a U.S. senator from
2001 to 2009. In early 2007, Clinton announced her plans to run for the
presidency. During the 2008 Democratic primaries, she conceded the nomination
when it became apparent that held a
majority of the delegate vote. After winning the national election, Obama
appointed Clinton secretary of state. She was sworn in as part of his cabinet
in January 2009 and served until 2013. In the spring of 2015, she announced her
plans to run again for the U.S. presidency. In 2016, she became the first
woman in U.S. history to become the presidential nominee of a major political
party. After a polarizing campaign against GOP candidate, Clinton was defeated
in the general election that November.
Early Stage in Life
Hillary Diane Clinton was born
Hillary Diane Rodham on October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. She was raised
in Park Ridge, Illinois, a picturesque suburb located 15 miles northwest of
downtown Chicago.
Hillary Rodham was the eldest
daughter of Hugh Rodham, a prosperous fabric store owner, and Dorothy Emma
Howell Rodham; she has two younger brothers, Hugh Jr. (born in 1950) and
Anthony (born in 1954).
As a young woman, Hillary was
active in young Republican groups and campaigned for Republican presidential
nominee in 1964. She was inspired to work in public service after hearing a
speech in Chicago by the, and became a Democrat in 1968.
Education and Early Career
Rodham attended Wellesley
College, where she was active in student politics and elected senior class
president before graduating in 1969. She then attended Yale Law School, where
she met Bill Clinton. Graduating with honors in 1973, she went on to enroll at
Yale Child Study Center, where she took courses on children and medicine and
completed one post-graduate year of study.
Clinton worked at various jobs
during her summers as a college student. In 1971, she first came to Washington,
D.C. to work on 's sub-committee on migrant workers. In the summer of 1972, she
worked in the western states for the campaign of Democratic presidential
nominee.
In the spring of 1974, Rodham
became a member of the presidential impeachment inquiry staff, advising the
Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives during the Watergate
Scandal.
(Chief Counsel Jerry Zeifman
would later contend that he fired Clinton from the committee for what he deemed
as unethical professional behavior connected to Nixon's due process. These
allegations have been contradicted by other media sources that deny Zeifman's
authority over the young attorney at this time, with no comment from Clinton
herself.)
After President resigned in August, she became a faculty
member of the University of Arkansas Law School in Fayetteville, where her Yale
Law School classmate and boyfriend Bill Clinton was teaching as well.
Marriage to Bill Clinton
Hillary Rodham married Bill
Clinton on October 11, 1975, at their home in Fayetteville. Before he proposed
marriage, Clinton had secretly purchased a small house that she had remarked
that she liked. When he proposed marriage to her and she accepted, he revealed
that they owned the house. Their daughter, , was born on February 27,
1980.
In 1976, Hillary worked on successful campaign for president while
husband Bill was elected attorney general. Bill Clinton was elected governor in
1978 at age 32, lost reelection in 1980, but came back to win in 1982, 1984,
1986 (when the term of office was expanded from two to four years) and 1990.
Hillary joined the Rose Law Firm
in Little Rock and, in 1977, was appointed to part-time chairman of the Legal
Services Corporation by President Carter. As first lady of the state for a
dozen years (1979-1981, 1983-1992), she chaired the Arkansas Educational
Standards Committee, co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and
Families, and served on the boards of the Arkansas Children's Hospital,
Arkansas Legal Services and the Children's Defense Fund. She also served on the
boards of TCBY and Wal-Mart
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