HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
Name: Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton
Born: 26 October 1947 Chicago, Illinois
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is the junior United States
Senator from New York, and a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination in
the 2008 presidential election. She is married to Bill Clinton—the 42nd
President of the United States—and was the First Lady of the United States from
1993 to 2001.
A native of Illinois, Hillary Rodham attracted national attention in 1969 when
she delivered an address as the first student to speak at commencement exercises
for Wellesley College. She began her career as a lawyer after graduating from
Yale Law School in 1973, moving to Arkansas and marrying Bill Clinton in 1975,
following her career as a Congressional legal counsel; she was named the first
female partner at Rose Law Firm in 1979 and was listed as one of the one hundred
most influential lawyers in America in 1988 and 1991. She was the First Lady of
Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992, was active in a number of
organizations concerned with the welfare of children, and was on the board of
Wal-Mart and several other corporate boards.
As First Lady of the United States, she took a prominent position in policy
matters. Her major initiative, the Clinton health care plan, failed to gain
approval by the U.S. Congress in 1994, but in 1997 she helped establish the
State Children's Health Insurance Program and the Adoption and Safe Families Act.
She became the only First Lady to be subpoenaed, testifying before a federal
grand jury as a consequence of the Whitewater controversy in 1996. She was never
charged with any wrongdoing in this or several other investigations during her
husband's administration. The state of her marriage to Bill Clinton was the
subject of considerable public discussion following the Lewinsky scandal in 1998.
After moving to New York, Clinton was elected as senator for New York State in
2000; this was the first time an American First Lady ran for public office and
she is the first female senator from that state. In the Senate, she initially
supported the George W. Bush administration on some foreign policy issues, which
included voting for the Iraq War Resolution. She has subsequently opposed the
administration on its conduct of the Iraq War and has opposed it on most
domestic issues. She was re-elected by a wide margin in 2006. In the 2008
Democratic nomination race, Clinton became the first woman in U.S. history to
win a statewide presidential party primary.
Name: Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton
Born: 26 October 1947 Chicago, Illinois
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is the junior United States
Senator from New York, and a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination in
the 2008 presidential election. She is married to Bill Clinton—the 42nd
President of the United States—and was the First Lady of the United States from
1993 to 2001.
A native of Illinois, Hillary Rodham attracted national attention in 1969 when
she delivered an address as the first student to speak at commencement exercises
for Wellesley College. She began her career as a lawyer after graduating from
Yale Law School in 1973, moving to Arkansas and marrying Bill Clinton in 1975,
following her career as a Congressional legal counsel; she was named the first
female partner at Rose Law Firm in 1979 and was listed as one of the one hundred
most influential lawyers in America in 1988 and 1991. She was the First Lady of
Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992, was active in a number of
organizations concerned with the welfare of children, and was on the board of
Wal-Mart and several other corporate boards.
As First Lady of the United States, she took a prominent position in policy
matters. Her major initiative, the Clinton health care plan, failed to gain
approval by the U.S. Congress in 1994, but in 1997 she helped establish the
State Children's Health Insurance Program and the Adoption and Safe Families Act.
She became the only First Lady to be subpoenaed, testifying before a federal
grand jury as a consequence of the Whitewater controversy in 1996. She was never
charged with any wrongdoing in this or several other investigations during her
husband's administration. The state of her marriage to Bill Clinton was the
subject of considerable public discussion following the Lewinsky scandal in 1998.
After moving to New York, Clinton was elected as senator for New York State in
2000; this was the first time an American First Lady ran for public office and
she is the first female senator from that state. In the Senate, she initially
supported the George W. Bush administration on some foreign policy issues, which
included voting for the Iraq War Resolution. She has subsequently opposed the
administration on its conduct of the Iraq War and has opposed it on most
domestic issues. She was re-elected by a wide margin in 2006. In the 2008
Democratic nomination race, Clinton became the first woman in U.S. history to
win a statewide presidential party primary.