Hillary Clinton Biography

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, author, and public speaker who served as the United States' 67th Secretary of State from the year 2009 to 2013, as the United States Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for President of the United States by a major political party in 2016 when she secured the Democratic Party candidacy.

She was the first woman to win the popular vote in a presidential election in the United States, but she did not win the Electoral College. Rodham, who grew up in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, graduated from Wellesley College in 1969 and from Yale Law School in 1973. After serving as a congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas and married future President Bill Clinton in 1975; the two had met at Yale. Clinton was a founding member of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, which was formed in 1977. She was named the first female head of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978, and the following year, she joined the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock as the first female partner.

Hillary Clinton Early Life

Let us learn about Hillary Clinton's birth details. Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was born on October 26, 1947, in Chicago's Edgewater Medical Center. She grew up in a United Methodist household that originally settled in Chicago. When she was three years old, her family moved to Park Ridge, a Chicago suburb.

Her father, Hugh Rodham, was of English and Welsh heritage and ran a modest but profitable fabric factory that he established. Dorothy Howell, her mother, was a housewife of Dutch, English, French Canadian, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry. Hugh and Tony, Clinton's younger siblings Rodham was a beloved student among her instructors in Park Ridge public schools when she was a youngster.

As a Brownie and a Girl Scout, she engaged in swimming and softball and received several badges. She has frequently related the tale of being impressed by the United States' efforts during the Space Race and writing to NASA around 1961, asking what she might do to become an astronaut, only to be told that women were not allowed into the program. She was a member of the student government and the school newspaper at Maine East High School, as well as being admitted into the National Honor Society. In her junior year, she was chosen class vice president, but her senior year, she was defeated in the election for class president by two males, one of whom told her, "You are very dumb if you imagine a girl can be elected president."

She earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1969, with departmental honours in political science. She became the first student in Wellesley College history to speak at graduation after some other seniors urged that the college administration allow a student speaker. Senator Edward Brooke's graduating address came after hers.

College Life

Rodham went on to Yale Law School, where she was a member of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action's editorial board. During her second year, she worked at the Yale Child Study Center, where she learned about new studies on early childhood brain development and assisted with the landmark study, Beyond the Best Interests of the Child (1973). She also worked on child abuse cases at Yale – New Haven Hospital and volunteered at New Haven Legal Services, which provides free legal assistance to the needy.

In the summer of 1970, she was given a grant to work at Marian Wright Edelman's Washington Research Project when she was assigned to Senator Walter Mondale's Subcommittee on Migratory Labor.

There, she conducted studies on migrant workers' concerns like education, health, and housing.  Edelman went on to be a key mentor. Rodham was hired by political consultant Anne Wexler to work for Connecticut U.S. Senate candidate Joseph Duffey's 1970 campaign. Rodham subsequently attributed her first position in politics to Wexler.

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First Lady Of The United States

Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first lady after Bill Clinton was elected president in January 1993. Her press secretary stated that she would continue to use that name. She was the first individual in her position to enter the White House with a postgraduate degree and professional employment. She was also the first first lady to have an office in the White House's West Wing, in addition to the typical first lady offices in the East Wing. She was a member of the tight group that vetted nominations to the new administration. Her picks filled at least eleven top-level posts, as well as scores of lower-level positions.

Some criticized the first lady's involvement in public politics as improper. Supporters pointed out that Clinton's participation in policy was no different from that of other White House aides, and that voters were fully aware she would have an active role in her husband's presidency. The strains of competing views about the duties of a first lady were enough to push Hillary Clinton into "imaginary debates" with Eleanor Roosevelt, who was also politically involved. Hillary sought sanctuary in a Fellowship prayer group that included many spouses of conservative Washington elites from the moment she arrived in Washington.

Senate Win and Presidential Run

Clinton chose to run for the U.S. Senate seat from New York now held by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who was retiring after four terms. Despite early difficulties and accusations of carpetbagging, Clinton defeated popular Republican Rick Lazio by an unexpectedly large margin: 55 percent to 43 percent. Clinton became the first wife of a president to run for and be elected to public office, as well as the first woman to be elected to the United States Senate from New York. In November 2006, she was comfortably re-elected.

Clinton announced her intention to run for president as the first female in early 2007. Senator Clinton relinquished the Democratic candidacy during the 2008 Democratic primaries after it became clear that nominee Barack Obama had a majority of the delegate vote. Clinton delivered a message to her supporters after she announced the end of her campaign.

Under Clinton's leadership, the State Department was investigated following a fatal attack on a US diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012, killed US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others. A study on the Benghazi incident was released by an independent panel, which identified "systematic failings and leadership and managerial inadequacies" at the State Department.

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Health Issues

Clinton, who claimed responsibility for security at the Benghazi outpost, was set to appear before Congress regarding the incident in December 2012. However, she canceled her scheduled testimony, alleging a stomach illness and, subsequently, a concussion incurred after fainting (the cause of which was later reported as dehydration). Some members of Congress questioned the timing of her sickness, notably Representative Allen West, who said the secretary of state had "Benghazi flu" on the day she was supposed to appear.

Clinton was hospitalized on December 30, 2012, for a blood clot connected to a concussion she experienced earlier in the month. After undergoing treatment, she was released from a New York hospital on January 2, 2013, she quickly healed and returned to work.

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton served as the 42nd President of the United States' First Lady. She went on to become the United States Secretary of State and a United States Senator from New York. Clinton was a prominent candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2008 election. Hillary Clinton continues to blend public duty and private life as the First Lady of the United States.

Her active participation began in 1993, when she was appointed to lead the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform. She remained a strong champion for increasing health insurance coverage, guaranteeing children's immunizations, and promoting public awareness of health concerns.