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Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is the junior United States Senator from New York, and is a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election. She is married to Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, and was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x1500, 200 KB) Official Senate portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton Source: http://clinton. ...
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A native of Illinois, Hillary Rodham initially attracted national attention in 1969 when she became the first student to speak at commencement exercises for Wellesley College. She began her career as a lawyer after graduating from Yale Law School in 1973, moving to Arkansas and marrying Bill Clinton in 1975; she was named the first female partner at Rose Law Firm in 1979 and was named one of the hundred most influential lawyers in America in 1988 and 1991. She served as the First Lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992, was active in a number of organizations concerned with the welfare of children, and was on several corporate board of directors. Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Metropolitan Area Area Ranked 25th - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²) - Width 210 miles (340 km) - Length 390 miles (629 km) - % water 4. ...
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Moving to New York, Clinton was elected to the United States Senate in 2000, becoming the first First Lady elected to public office and the first woman elected Senator from that state. There she initially supported the George W. Bush administration on some foreign policy issues, including voting for the Iraq War Resolution, but opposed the administration on most domestic issues. She was re-elected by a wide margin in 2006. Long described as a polarizing figure in American politics, during 2007 she has consistently been the front-runner in polls for the 2008 Democratic nomination for President. The New York United States Senate election in 2000 featured an historic race in which Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first First Lady of the United States to run (and win) an election for public office. ...
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// Hillary Rodham Clinton Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (born Hillary Diane Rodham on October 26, 1947) is the junior United States Senator from New York, serving her freshman term since January 3, 2001. ...
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Early life and education
Early life Hillary[1] Diane Rodham was born at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago, Illinois,[2] and was raised in a United Methodist family[3] first in Chicago, and then, from the age of three, in suburban Park Ridge, Illinois.[4] Her father, Hugh Ellsworth Rodham, was a son of Welsh and English immigrants[5] and operated a small but successful business in the textile industry.[6] Her mother, Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham, of English, Scottish, French Canadian, Welsh, and possibly Native American descent,[7] was a homemaker.[4] She has two younger brothers, Hugh and Tony. Nickname: Motto: Urbs in Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country State Counties Cook, DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area - City 234. ...
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As a child, Hillary Rodham was involved in many activities at church and at her public school in Park Ridge. She participated in a variety of sports and earned awards as a Brownie and Girl Scout.[8] She attended Maine East High School, where she had participated in student council, the debating team and the National Honor Society. For her senior year she was redistricted to Maine South High School,[9] where she was a National Merit Finalist.[9] Raised in a conservative family,[10] she volunteered for Republican candidate Barry Goldwater in the United States presidential election of 1964.[11] Her parents encouraged her to pursue the career of her choice.[12] A Brownie is a young person, aged between seven and ten, who is a member of a Guide Association. ...
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College After graduating from high school in 1965, Rodham enrolled in Wellesley College where she majored in political science.[13] She became active in politics and served as president of the Wellesley Young Republicans organization during her freshman year.[14][15] However, due to her evolving views regarding the American Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War, she subsequently stepped down from that position.[14] In her junior year, Rodham was affected by the death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., whom she had met in 1962,[8] and became a supporter of the anti-war presidential nomination campaign of Democrat Eugene McCarthy.[16] Rodham organized a two-day strike and worked with Wellesley's black students for moderate changes, such as recruiting more black students and faculty.[17] In that same year she was elected president of the Wellesley College Government.[18] She attended the "Wellesley in Washington" summer program at the urging of Professor Alan Schechter, who assigned Rodham to intern at the House Republican Conference so she could better understand her switch to the Democratic Party.[17] Rodham was invited by Representative Charles Goodell, a moderate New York Republican, to help Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s late-entry campaign for the Republican nomination.[17] Rodham attended the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami, where she decided to leave the Republican Party for good; she was upset over how Richard Nixon's campaign had portrayed Rockefeller and what Rodham perceived as the "veiled" racist messages of the convention.[17] For other uses, see Wellesley College (disambiguation). ...
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Rodham returned to Wellesley, and wrote her senior thesis about the tactics of radical community organizer Saul Alinsky under Professor Schechter (which, years later while she was First Lady, was suppressed at the request of the White House and became the subject of speculation as to its contents).[19] In 1969, Rodham graduated with departmental honors in political science. Stemming from the demands of some students,[20] she became the first student in Wellesley College history to deliver their commencement address.[21] According to reports by the Associated Press, her speech received a standing ovation lasting seven minutes.[22][23] She was featured in an article published in Life magazine, due to the response to a part of her speech that criticized Senator Edward Brooke, who had spoken before her at the commencement;[8] she also appeared on Irv Kupcinet's nationally-syndicated television talk show as well as in Illinois and New England newspapers.[24] That summer, she worked her way across Alaska, washing dishes in Mount McKinley National Park and sliming salmon in a fish processing cannery in Valdez (which shut down overnight when she complained about unhealthy conditions).[25][26] The Senior thesis is a research-based paper written at many universities and high schools. ...
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Law school Rodham then entered Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action.[27] During her second year, she worked at the Yale Child Study Center,[28] learning about new research on early childhood brain development and working as a research assistant on the seminal work, Beyond the Best Interests of the Child (1973).[29][30] She also took on cases of child abuse at Yale-New Haven Hospital,[29] and volunteered at New Haven Legal Services to provide free advice for the poor.[28] In the summer of 1970, she was awarded a grant to work at Marian Wright Edelman's Washington Research Project, where she was assigned to Senator Walter Mondale's Subcommittee on Migratory Labor, researching migrant workers' problems in housing, sanitation, health and education;[31][32] Edelman would become a significant mentor to her.[32] The Sterling Law Building Sculptural ornamentation on the Sterling Law Building Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. ...
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In the late spring of 1971, she began dating Bill Clinton, who was also a law student at Yale. That summer, she interned on child custody cases[33] at the Oakland, California, law firm of Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein,[34][35] which was well-known for its support of constitutional rights, civil liberties, and radical causes;[35] two of its four partners were communists.[35][36] The following summer, Rodham and Clinton campaigned in Texas for unsuccessful 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern.[37][38] She received a Juris Doctor degree from Yale in 1973,[8] having spent an extra year there in order to be with Clinton.[39] Clinton first proposed marriage to her following graduation, but she declined at the time.[39] She began a year of post-graduate study on children and medicine at the Yale Child Study Center.[40] Her first scholarly paper, "Children Under the Law", was published in the Harvard Educational Review in late 1973[41] and became frequently cited in the field. “Oakland†redirects here. ...
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Marriage and family, law career and First Lady of Arkansas
Key decision During her post-graduate study, Rodham served as staff attorney for Edelman's newly-founded Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts,[42] and as a consultant to the Carnegie Council on Children.[43] During 1974 she was a member of the impeachment inquiry staff in Washington, D.C., advising the House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate scandal.[44][45] Under the guidance of Chief Counsel John Doar and senior member Bernard Nussbaum,[29] Rodham helped research procedures of impeachment and the historical grounds and standards for impeachment.[45] The committee's work culminated in the resignation of President Richard Nixon in August 1974.[45] The Childrens Defense Fund is a child advocacy group. ...
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By then, Rodham was viewed as someone with a bright political future; Democratic political organizer and consultant Betsey Wright had moved from Texas to Washington the previous year to help guide her career;[46] Wright thought Rodham had the potential to one day become a Senator or President.[47] Meanwhile, Clinton had repeatedly asked her to marry him, and she had continued to defer.[48] However, helped by her having passed the Arkansas but not the District of Columbia bar exam on her first attempt,[49] Rodham came to a key decision. As she later wrote, "I chose to follow my heart instead of my head."[50] She thus followed Bill Clinton to Arkansas, rather than staying in Washington where career prospects were best. Clinton was at the time teaching law and running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in his home state. In August 1974, she moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas, and became one of two female faculty members at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville School of Law,[51] where Bill Clinton also taught. Even then, she still harbored doubts about marriage, concerned that her separate identity would be lost and her accomplishments would be viewed in the light of someone else's accomplishments.[52] Betsey Wright is a nationally respected political adviser who worked more than a decade for Bill Clinton in Arkansas. ...
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Early Arkansas years The couple bought a house in Fayetteville in the summer of 1975, and she finally agreed to marry him.[53] Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton were married on October 11, 1975, in a Methodist ceremony in their living room.[54] She kept her name as Hillary Rodham, later writing that she had done so to keep their professional lives separate and avoid seeming conflicts of interest, although it upset both their mothers.[55] Bill Clinton had lost the Congressional race in 1974, but in November 1976 was elected Attorney General of Arkansas. This required the couple to move to the state capital of Little Rock.[56] Rodham joined the venerable Rose Law Firm, a bastion of Arkansan political and economic influence,[57] in February 1977,[58] specializing in patent infringement and intellectual property law,[27] while also working pro bono in child advocacy;[59] she rarely performed litigation work in court.[60] is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Rodham co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a state-level alliance with the Children's Defense Fund, in 1977.[27][61] In late 1977, President Jimmy Carter (for whom Rodham had done 1976 campaign coordination work in Indiana)[62] appointed her to the board of directors of the Legal Services Corporation,[63] and she served in that capacity from 1978 through the end of 1981.[64] For much of that time[65] she served as the chair of that board, the first woman to do so.[66] During her time as chair, funding for the Corporation was expanded from $90 million to $300 million,[59] and she successfully battled against President Ronald Reagan's initial attempts to reduce the funding and change the nature of the organization.[59] The Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families is an organization whose mission is to protect and promote through research, education and advocacy the rights and well-being of Arkansas children and their families, to assure that they have the opportunity to lead healthy and productive lives. ...
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Following the November 1978 election of her husband as Governor of Arkansas, Rodham became First Lady of Arkansas in January 1979, her title for a total of twelve years (1979–1981, 1983–1992). Clinton appointed her chair of the Rural Health Advisory Committee the same year,[67] where she successfully obtained federal funds to expand medical facilities in Arkansas' poorest areas without affecting doctors' fees.[68] This is a list of governors of Arkansas. ...
In 1979,[69] she became the first woman to be made a full partner of Rose Law Firm.[70] From 1978 until they entered the White House, she had a higher salary than her husband.[58] During 1978 and 1979, while looking to supplement their income, Rodham made a spectacular profit from trading cattle futures contracts.[71] The couple also began their ill-fated investment in the Whitewater Development Corporation real estate venture with Jim and Susan McDougal at this time.[71] In 1978 and 1979, lawyer and First Lady of Arkansas Hillary Rodham engaged in a series of trades of cattle futures contracts. ...
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Later Arkansas years
 Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1992 Bill Clinton returned to the Governor's office two years later by winning the election of 1982. During her husband's campaign, Rodham began to use the name Hillary Clinton, or sometimes "Mrs. Bill Clinton", in order to have greater appeal to Arkansas voters;[72] she also took a leave of absence from Rose Law in order to campaign for him full-time.[73] As First Lady of Arkansas, Hillary Clinton chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee from 1982 to 1992,[74] where she sought to bring about reform in the state's court-sanctioned public education system.[75][76] One of the most important initiatives of the entire Clinton governorship,[75] she fought a prolonged but ultimately successful battle against the Arkansas Education Association[75] to put mandatory teacher testing as well as state standards for curriculum and classroom size in place.[75] She introduced Arkansas' Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth in 1985, a program that helps parents work with their children in preschool preparedness and literacy.[77] She was named Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983 and Arkansas Mother of the Year in 1984.[78] Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 468 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (2830 × 3624 pixel, file size: 609 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Date 1992 Author Presidential file Permission (Reusing this image) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ...
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The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest professional employee organization in the United States, representing public school teachers and other support personnel (membership is mandatory in various school districts), faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and college students preparing to become teachers. ...
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Clinton continued to practice law with the Rose Law Firm while she was First Lady of Arkansas. She earned less than all the other partners, due to fewer hours being billed,[79] but still made over $200,000 in her final year there.[69] She continued to rarely do trial work,[69] but was considered a "rainmaker" at the firm for bringing in clients, partly due to the prestige she lent the firm and to her corporate board connections.[69] She was also very influential in the appointment of state judges.[69] Bill Clinton's Republican opponent in his 1986 gubernatorial re-election campaign accused the Clintons of conflict of interest, because Rose Law did state business; the Clintons deflected the charge by saying that state fees were walled off by the firm before her profits were calculated.[80] From 1987 to 1991 she chaired the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession,[81][82] which addressed gender bias in the law profession and induced the association to adopt measures to combat it.[81] She was twice named by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America, in 1988 and in 1991.[83] When Bill Clinton thought about not running again for governor in 1990, Hillary Clinton considered running herself, but private polls were unfavorable and in the end he ran and was re-elected for the final time.[84][85] American Bar Associations Washington, DC office The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students, which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. ...
The National Law Journal, a periodical founded in 1980, provides timely legal information of national importance to attorneys, including federal circuit court decisions, verdicts, practitioners columns, coverage of legislative issues, and legal news for the business and private sectors. ...
Clinton served on the boards of the Arkansas Children's Hospital Legal Services (1988–1992)[86] and the Children's Defense Fund (as chair, 1986–1992).[87][12] In addition to her positions with non-profit organizations, she also held positions on the corporate board of directors of TCBY (1985–1992),[88] Wal-Mart Stores (1986–1992)[89] and Lafarge (1990–1992).[90] TCBY and Wal-Mart were Arkansas-based companies that were also clients of Rose Law.[69][91] Clinton was the first female member on Wal-Mart's board, added when chairman Sam Walton was pressured to name one;[91] once there, she pushed successfully for the chain to adopt more environmentally-friendly practices,[91] pushed largely unsuccessfully for more women to be added to the company's management,[91] and was silent about the company's famously anti-labor union practices.[91][89] Arkansas Childrens Hospital, an affiliate of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, is the only pediatric medical center in Arkansas and one of the largest in the United States, serving children from birth to age 21. ...
The Childrens Defense Fund is a child advocacy group. ...
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Lafarge (Euronext: LG, NYSE: LR) is a French industrial company specializing in five major products: Cement, construction aggregates, concrete, gypsum wallboard, and roofing tile. ...
Samuel Moore Walton (March 29, 1918 – April 6, 1992), born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma was the founder of two American retailers Wal-Mart and Sams Club. ...
A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers...
First Lady of the United States
A new kind of First Lady After her husband became a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination of 1992, Hillary Clinton received popular national attention for the first time. Before the New Hampshire primary, tabloid publications printed claims that Bill Clinton had had an extramarital affair with Gennifer Flowers, an Arkansas lounge singer.[92] In response, the Clintons appeared together on 60 Minutes, during which Bill Clinton denied the affair but acknowledged he had caused "pain" in their marriage.[93] (Years later, he would admit that the Flowers affair had happened.)[94] Hillary Clinton made culturally dismissive remarks about Tammy Wynette[95] and baking cookies[96] during the campaign that were ill-considered by her own admission. Bill Clinton said that electing him would get "two for the price of one", referring to the prominent role his wife would assume.[97] The 1992 Democratic presidential primary chose the Democratic nominee for the general election. ...
The New Hampshire primary is the first of a number of statewide political party primary elections held in the United States every four years, as part of the process of the Democratic and Republican parties choosing their candidate for the presidential elections on the subsequent November. ...
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Gennifer Flowers (born January 24, 1950) is one of three women who have claimed to have had affairs with U.S. President Bill Clinton. ...
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Tammy Wynette (May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998) was an American country singer and songwriter. ...
When Bill Clinton took office as president in January 1993, Hillary Rodham Clinton became the First Lady of the United States, and announced that she would be using that form of her name.[98] She was the first First Lady to hold a post-graduate degree[99] and to have her own professional career up to the time of entering the White House.[100] She was also the first First Lady to take up an office in the West Wing of the White House,[40] First Ladies usually staying in the East Wing. She is regarded as the most openly empowered presidential wife in American history, save for Eleanor Roosevelt.[101] Image File history File links Source: http://web. ...
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Quaternary education or postgraduate education is the fourth-stage educational level, and follows the completion of an undergraduate degree at a college or university. ...
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Some critics called it inappropriate for the First Lady to play a central role in matters of public policy. Supporters pointed out that Clinton's role in policy was no different from that of other White House advisors and that voters were well aware that she would play an active role in her husband's Presidency.[102] Bill Clinton's campaign promise of "two for the price of one" led opponents to refer derisively to the Clintons as "co-presidents",[103] or sometimes "Billary".[104] The pressures of conflicting ideas about the role of a First Lady were enough to send Clinton into "imaginary discussions" with the also-politically-active Eleanor Roosevelt.[105] Other segments of the public focused on her appearance, which had evolved over time from inattention to fashion during her days in Arkansas,[106] to a popular site in the early days of the World Wide Web devoted to showing her many different, and much analyzed, hairstyles as First Lady,[107][108] to an appearance on the cover of Vogue magazine in 1998.[109] WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. ...
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Health care and other policy initiatives In 1993, the president appointed his wife to head and be the chairwoman of the Task Force on National Health Care Reform, hoping to replicate the success she had in leading the effort for Arkansas education reform.[75] The recommendation of the task force became known as the Clinton health care plan, a complex proposal that would mandate employers to provide health coverage to their employees through individual health maintenance organizations. The plan was quickly derided as "Hillarycare" by its opponents; some protesters against it became vitriolic, and during a July 1994 bus tour to rally support for the plan, she was forced to wear a bulletproof vest at times.[110][111] The plan did not receive enough support for a floor vote in either the House or the Senate, although both chambers were controlled by Democrats, and proposal was abandoned in September of 1994.[110] Clinton later acknowledged in her book, Living History, that her political inexperience partly contributed to the defeat, but mentioned that many other factors were also responsible. The First Lady's approval ratings, which had generally been in the high-50s percent range during her first year, fell to 44 percent in April 1994 and 35 percent by September 1994.[112] Republicans made the Clinton health care plan a major campaign issue of the 1994 midterm elections,[113] which saw a net Republican gain of fifty-three seats in the House election and seven in the Senate election, winning control of both.[114] Opponents of universal health care would continue to use "Hillarycare" as a pejorative label for similar plans by others.[115] A chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ...
The Clinton health care plan was a 1993 healthcare reform package proposed by the administration of Bill Clinton, then sitting President of the United States. ...
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The U.S. House election, 1994 was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1994 which occurred in the middle of President Bill Clintons first term. ...
Republican holds Republican pickups Democratic holds Democratic pickups The U.S. Senate election, 1994 was an election in which the Republican Party was able to take control of the Senate from the Democrats by mobilizing voters discontented with congressional incumbents and the early presidency of Bill Clinton. ...
Universal health care is a situation in which all residents of a geographic or political region have access to most types of health care. ...
 Clinton reads to a child during a school visit Along with Senator Ted Kennedy, she was the major force behind the State Children's Health Insurance Program in 1997, a federal effort that provided state support for children whose parents were unable to provide them with health coverage.[116] She promoted nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses and encouraged older women to seek a mammogram to detect breast cancer, with coverage provided by Medicare.[117] She successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health.[40] The First Lady worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War, which became known as the Gulf War syndrome.[40] Together with Attorney General Janet Reno, Clinton helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice.[40] In 1997, she initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which she regarded as her greatest accomplishment as First Lady.[40] As First Lady, Clinton hosted numerous White House Conferences, including ones on Child Care (1997), |
