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Hillary Clinton Biography

Hillary Clinton Biography

Full Name: Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton

Date of Birth: October 26, 1947

Birth Place: Chicago

Father's name: Hugh E. Rodham

Mother's Name: Dorothy Howell Rodham

Siblings: Anthony Rodham, Hugh E. Rodham Jr.

Spouse/Ex-Spouse: Bill Clinton

Children: Chelsea Clinton

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Age: 70 Years

Occupation: Former First Lady, Political Leader

Nationality: American

Political Ideology: Democratic

Founder/Co-Founder: Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families

Net Worth: $32 Million as Of August 2016

Introduction


Hillary Clinton is a well known Politician and a lawyer and she has been there on the post of the Secretary of the United States from the year 2009 to 2013. Later in the year 2016, she had also been nominated to the position of the United State's President on behalf of the Democratic Party but she lost the election to Donald Trump from the Republican Party. She is married to Bill Clinton, former US President and she was seated on the position of the first lady during 1993 to 2001 when her husband was serving as the President of the country.

She was born in Chicago and was quite an ambitious child from a very young age. She completed her study of law from the Yale Law School and later on went on to pursue her career as a legal professional and it is after this that she entered into Politics. While she was serving as the first lady of the country she started taking forward steps to build up her career into Politics and finally she was made the U.S. senator in the year 2001 and soon she became a popular senator which lead her to finally serving her second term as Senator. Later with her high ambitions as always she was chosen in the year 2009 to 2013 as the Secretary of state at the time of Obama Government. After the end of Obama's first term she left the office to fight the election for Presidency but she lost the election on 8th of November 2016 to Republican Trump.

Early Life and Childhood

Born in Chicago on 26th of October 1947, Hillary Clinton was the eldest of the three children of whom two were his brothers Hugh and Tony. She completed her graduation studies in 1965 from the Maine South High School. Her parents wanted her to have an in independent career which is not affected by any gender biasness. In the year 1965 she got herself enrolled into the Wellesley College in Political Science. All through her college she was quite active in students Politics and she was also electe to hold the position of the President of Wellesley Young Republicans.

Before she found a place for herself a place in the Yale Law School she took up a number of odd jobs after completing her BA in Political Science in the Year 1969. Later in year 1970, she got elected to work with the Walter Mondale's sub-committee with the Senator on migrant workers. She then worked on child custody and other cases while she was interning at Oakland, California, with the law firm of Treuhaft.

Later in 1973 she was awarded with Juris Doctorate degree from the Yale that followed her beginning of her one year postgraduate diploma to study medicine and children. She also served as staff attorney for Children's defense fund while she was pursuing postgraduate diploma.

Marriage to Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham married in the year 1975, October 11th at Fayetteville. Before Bill put forth the proposal of marriage to Hillary he had already bought a home secretly and he revealed the secret for the same only after Hillary accepted the proposal for marriage. Their daughter Chelsea Victoria was then born in the year 1980 on 27th February.

Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton on October 11, 1975, at their home in. 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, Chelsea Victoria, was born on February 27, 1980.

Clinton Daughter

Hillary and Bill Clinton is parent to one daughter named as Chelsea Victoria born on 27th of February 1980.

Her Tenure as the first Lady

In the year 1992, she successfully joined her husband in campaigning for getting seat for the Presidential election. She is believed to have been played one of the crucial roles the victory of her husband Bill Clinton. With her husband taking the charge of the president of the county Hillary Clinton became the first lady in the year 1993. She was often cited as the co-president and during her tenure as the first lady she played a crucial role in formulizing public policies.

Awards & Accolades

She has had the honor of receiving a number of awards and accolades for having been able to contribute tremendously to the law and the political field of work. Apart from that she has also been awarded with many honorary degrees from various well known Universities from around the world.

Books written by Hillary Clinton

Hillary had penned down a number of books and some of the well known of them include Living History (2003), Other Lessons Children Teach Us (1996), What Happened (2017) and Hard Choices (2014)

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