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Hillary clinton childhood

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In July of 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first woman in history to represent a major party in a United States presidential election. She is also the first woman to win the Iowa Presidential Caucus, the first First Lady elected to the United States Senate, and the first female senator from New York.

Hillary Diane Rodham was born in a suburb outside of Chicago, Illinois in 1947 to middle-class parents. They encouraged her to take education seriously, and she earned entrance to Massachusetts’ Wellesley College. Her parents were Republicans and Clinton served as president of Wellesley’s Republican club, but the social issues of the late 1960s led her to become a dedicated Democrat. When her classmates elected her as Wellesley’s first student speaker at graduation, she said to her peers: “The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.”

In 1969, Clinton attended Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors for the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. It was there that Clinton met her future husband, Wil

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About Hillary

Hillary Rodham Clinton has spent five decades in public service as an advocate, attorney, First Lady, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State, and presidential candidate.

Hillary Rodham was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 26, 1947. After graduating from Wellesley College and Yale Law School, she began her life-long work on behalf of children and families by joining the Children’s Defense Fund. In 1974, she moved to Arkansas, where she married Bill Clinton and became a successful attorney while also raising their daughter, Chelsea. During her 12 years as First Lady of Arkansas, she was Chairwoman of the Arkansas Education Standards Committee, co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, and served on the boards of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital, and the Children’s Defense Fund.

As First Lady of the United States, from 1993 to 2001, Hillary Clinton championed health care for all Americans and led successful bipartisan efforts to improve the adoption and foster care systems, reduce teen pregnancy, and create the Children’s Hea

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CLINTON, Hillary Rodham

In 2000, while serving as First Lady of the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton won election to the U.S. Senate from New York. On Capitol Hill she worked to rebuild and secure New York City in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, and pushed for measures to aid the troops fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. After serving as Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Barack Obama, she became the first woman in American history to be nominated for President on a major party ticket. After breaking barriers at every turn during her political career Clinton reflected on her legacy in March 2020. “Well, I know I was a good public servant,” she said. “I hope that I’ve made it a little bit easier for more women to enter the public sphere.”¹

Hillary Rodham Clinton was born Hillary Diane Rodham on October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois, the oldest of three children, to Hugh Ellsworth Rodham and Dorothy Howell Rodham. Clinton grew up in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge and graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, where she be