William jefferson clinton short biography
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William Jefferson Clinton
Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, three months after his father died in an automobile accident. In high school, he took the name of his step father, Roger Clinton of Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Bill Clinton graduated from Georgetown University in 1968 and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. He received a law degree from Yale in 1973. After graduation, he returned to Arkansas and taught law at the University of Arkansas before entering politics. His 1974 campaign for Congress ended in defeat, but two years later he was elected Arkansas Attorney General.
In 1975, Bill Clinton married Hillary Rodham, whom he had met while a law student at Yale. Chelsea, their only child, was born in 1980.
Bill Clinton was elected governor of Arkansas in 1978, but lost a bid for reelection in 1980. He regained the governorship two years later and served until 1993. During his 12 years in office, Governor Clinton
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Bill Clinton (1946- )
Bill Clinton ©The 42nd president of the United States whose second term in office was dominated by scandal.
William Jefferson Clinton was born on 19 August 1946 in Hope, Arkansas. His father died before he was born and his mother remarried a man whose surname Clinton took. He studied international affairs at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and then spent two years at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. In 1970, Clinton returned to the US to take a scholarship at Yale University Law School. While at Yale he met and married fellow student Hillary Rodham.
In 1973, he began to teach law at the University of Arkansas Law School, then resigned to run unsuccesfully for Congress. In 1976, he won his first political post, running for Arkansas Attorney General. Two years later he won the state governorship, but failed to be re-elected in 1980. He ran again successfully in 1982 and served in the post for a decade. In 1992, he was selected as Democrat
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On August 19, 1946, William (Bill) Jefferson Blythe III was born to Virginia Cassidy Blythe. William was named after his father, William Blythe II, who tragically passed away in a car accident three months prior. ung Bill would later grow up to become William Jefferson Clinton, and become the 42nd president of the United States.
Bill was born in the city of Hope, Arkansas, but would later move to Hot Springs, Arkansas after his mother married bekräftelse Clinton. While the time Bill spent in Hope as a child was brief compared to his time in Hot Springs, this home laid the foundation for who he would later become.
"...my grandparents and my mother always made me feel I was the most important individ in the world to them. Most children will man it if they have just one person who makes them feel that way. I had three." — Presient Bill Clinton
Bill was raised jointly by his mother and maternal grandparents for the first several years of his life. His grandmother, Edith Grisham, wor