Bill Clinton
August 19, 1946
born Arkansas
Brief Biography:
Bill Clinton won the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination and defeated George Bush to become the fortysecond president of the United States. He was elected to a second term in 1996. As a former president Clinton continues to work for a variety of issues that became important to him during his political career.
Life:born August 19, 1946, Hope, Arkansas U.S. 42nd president of the United States 1990–2001 who oversaw the countrys longest peacetime economic expansion. In 1998 he became only the second U.S. president to be impeached he was acquitted by the Senate in 1999. For a discussion of the history and nature of the presidency presidency of the United States of America.
Early life
Bill Clintons father was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before his son was born. His widow Virginia Dell Blythe married Roger Clinton and, despite their unstable union they divorced and then remarried and her husbands alcoholism her son eventually took his stepfathers name. Reared in part by his maternal grandmother Bill Clinton developed political aspirations at an early age they were solidified by his own account in July 1963 when he met and shook hands with President John F. Kennedy.
Education:In 1974 Clinton was a first year law professor and ran for the House of Representatives. He was was defeated but remained undaunted and ran for Attorney General of Arkansas unopposed in 1976. He went on to run for Governor of Arkansas in 1978 and won becoming the youngest governor of the state. He was defeated in the 1980 election but returned to office in 1982. Over the next decade in office he established himself as a New Democrat that could appeal to both Republicans and Democrats.
career:Lawyer public official.
Fun Facts:When he was a child he was mauled by a sheep. He called it the worst beating he ever got.
Clinton is the only president to play the saxophone.
Clinton appointed more women to cabinet positions than any other president. Hillary were married by a Methodist minister in a house Bill had bought.They had a daughter Chelsea Victoria 1980.Her name was inspired by her parents fondness for Judy Collinss 1969 recording of the Joni Mitchell song Chelsea Morning.The President has always loved to read. In fact with the help of his grandfather he learned how to read by the time he was three years old. When he was in elementary school he enjoyed reading Dick and Jane later his favorite books included Black Beauty and The Last of the Mohicans. As a child he was given the nickname Bubba a common southern nickname.
In high school he played the Saxophone as part of a jazz trio called Three Blind Mice. His passion to play the sax continies to this day.
He graduated from Georgetown University in 1968 and from Yale University Law school in 1973.
He was elected governor of Arkansas when he was 32 making him the youngest governor in the United States at that time.
Clinton gave 140 pardons on his last day as President of the United States.
Clinton was impeached on December 19, 1998 by the House of Representatives. This gave him the dubious distinction of being the first elected U.S. President to be impeached.
Some of his successes as president included appointing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the Supreme Court allow U.S. forces to invade Haiti to return Aristide to power delivering welfare reform and presiding over a budget surplus in his last years in office.
His biggest legislative failure was his health care initiative.
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