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Bill
Clinton
William J. Clinton was born William
Jefferson Blythe IV on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, three
months after his father died in a traffic accident. When he was
four years old, his mother wed Roger Clinton of Hot Springs, Arkansas.
In high school young William took the family name.
Clinton attended Georgetown University
and in 1968 received a bachelor's degree in foreign service. A Rhodes
Scholar, he studied at Oxford University for two years.He
received a law degree from Yale University in 1973, then returned
to Arkansas to teach law at the University of Arkansas and to prepare
to enter politics.
He was defeated in his campaign for
Congress in Arkansas' Third District in 1974. The next year he married
Hillary Rodham, a Wellesley College graduate. He had met her while
they both were studying law at Yale. Their marriage formed a strong
personal and political partnership of talented equals that would
give added dimension to the Clinton Presidency. It also expanded
the Clintons' household; in 1980, their daughter, Chelsea, was born.
Clinton was elected Arkansas attorney
general in 1976, then went on to win the governorship in 1978. He
lost in his try for a second term,. but he regained the office four
years later and served as governor until 1992. That year Clinton
defeated George Bush and third-party candidate Ross Perot for the
Presidency.
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