Hillary Clinton | |
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67th United States Secretary of State | |
In office January 21, 2009 – February 1, 2013 | |
President | Barack Obama |
Deputy | |
Preceded by | Condoleezza Rice |
Succeeded by | John Kerry |
United States Senator from New York | |
In office January 3, 2001 – January 21, 2009 | |
Preceded by | Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
Succeeded by | Kirsten Gillibrand |
First Lady of the United States | |
In role January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001 | |
President | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Barbara Bush |
Succeeded by | Laura Bush |
First Lady of Arkansas | |
In role January 11, 1983 – December 12, 1992 | |
Governor | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Gay Daniels White |
Succeeded by | Betty Tucker |
In role January 9, 1979 – January 19, 1981 | |
Governor | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Barbara Pryor |
Succeeded by | Gay Daniels White |
Personal details | |
Born | Hillary Diane Rodham October 26, 1947 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic (1968–present) |
Other political affiliations | Republican (before 1968) |
Spouse(s) |
Bill Clinton (m. 1975)
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Children | Chelsea Clinton |
Parents | |
Education | Wellesley College (BA) Yale University (JD) |
Net worth | US$45 million (October 2015)[1] |
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Website | Official website |
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Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Clinton graduated from Wellesley College in 1969 and earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1973. After serving as a congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas and married Bill Clinton in 1975. In 1977, she co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. She was appointed the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978 and became the first female partner at Rose Law Firm the following year. As First Lady of Arkansas, she led a task force whose recommendations helped reform Arkansas's public schools.
As First Lady of the United States, Clinton was an advocate for gender equality and healthcare reform. Her marital relationship came under public scrutiny during the Lewinsky scandal, which led her to issue a statement that reaffirmed her commitment to the marriage. In 2000, Clinton was elected as the first female Senator from New York. She was reelected to the Senate in 2006. Running for president in 2008, she won far more delegates than any previous female candidate but lost the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama.[2]
During her tenure as U.S. Secretary of State in the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2013, Clinton responded to the Arab Spring by advocating military intervention in Libya. She helped to organize a diplomatic isolation and international sanctions regime against Iran in an effort to force curtailment of that country's nuclear program; this would eventually lead to the multinational Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreement in 2015. Upon leaving her Cabinet position after Obama's first term, she wrote her fifth book and undertook speaking engagements.
Clinton made a second presidential run in 2016. She received the most votes and primary delegates in the 2016 Democratic primaries and formally accepted her party's nomination for President of the United States on July 28, 2016 with vice presidential running mate Senator Tim Kaine. She became the first female candidate to be nominated for president by a major U.S. political party. She lost the presidential election to Republican opponent Donald Trump despite winning a plurality of the popular vote.[3] She received more than 65 million votes, the 3rd-highest count in a U.S. presidential election, behind Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012. Following her loss, she wrote her third memoir, What Happened, and launched Onward Together, a political action organization dedicated to fundraising for progressive political groups.[4]
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