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| Born | in Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Birth Name | Hillary Diane Rodham |
| Nicknames |
Hill HRC |
| Height | 5' 5" (1.65 m) |
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Hillary Clinton was born on October 26, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, USA as Hillary Diane Rodham. She has been married to Bill Clinton since October 11, 1975. They have one child.
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| Bill Clinton | (11 October 1975 - present) ( 1 child) |
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Used to be a Republican and volunteered for Barry Goldwater when she was younger. She became a Democrat when she attended Wellesley and later on met Bill Clinton while they were attending Yale University.
Loves art, especially sculpture.
Gave birth to her daughter Chelsea Clinton on 27 February 1980.
Sister-in-law of Roger Clinton.
Honorary President of the Girl Scouts of America.
Raised in a United Methodist family.
Graduate of Wellesley College and Yale University Law School.
She kept her maiden name until 1982, when she changed her name to Hillary Rodham Clinton on the advice of her husband's campaign staff during his run for Governor of Arkansas. She wrote in her memoir "Living History" that, "I learned the hard way that some voters in Arkansas were seriously offended by the fact that I kept my maiden name." After announcing her second run for the presidency in 2015, her campaign confirmed to the Associated Press that she was dropping Rodham from her preferred name, and would henceforth be known as Hillary Clinton.
1984 Arkansas Mother of the Year.
She was the first US First Lady to seek and win a political office while still being First Lady when she was elected to the US Senate from New York in 2000.
Is the first female U.S. Senator from the state of New York.
Has been portrayed on Saturday Night Live (1975) by Ana Gasteyer, Amy Poehler, Janeane Garofalo, Jan Hooks, and Kate McKinnon.
Born at the stroke of midnight (12 AM CST).
Grew up in the suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois.
She ranked #22 in Celebrity Sleuth 25 Sexiest Women of 1997.
Wanted to be an astronaut until she learned that NASA did not accept women in the 1950s and 1960s.
Attended two high schools in Park Ridge, Illinois: Maine East High School, where a classmate was Steve Goodman, and Maine South High School, from which she graduated.
Daughter-in-law of Virginia Clinton Kelley.
Shares the same birthday (and was born in the same city) as Pat Sajak and is one year his junior.
Met her husband Bill Clinton, when she smiled at him in the Yale University library.
"Living History", her 2003 memoir of her life with President Bill Clinton, including his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, is the fastest selling non-fiction book ever.
Received the "Best Spoken Word Album" Grammy Award in 1997 for the recording of her book "It Takes A Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us".
Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983.
Was reelected as United States Senator from New York with 67% of the vote (7 November 2006).
Born to Hugh Ellsworth Rodham (1911-1993), an executive in the textile industry, and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham (1919-2011), a homemaker, she has two brothers, Hugh and Tony.
Announced her intentions to run for President of the United States on 20 January 2007 by forming a exploratory committee.
Is a fan of the TV show Most Extreme Elimination Challenge (2003).
Celebrities supporting her 2008 presidential campaign include Steven Spielberg, Candice Bergen, Michael Douglas, Madonna, Reese Witherspoon, Melissa Etheridge, America Ferrera, Rob Reiner, Martha Stewart, John Grisham, Janet Jackson, Hugh Hefner, Elizabeth Taylor, Rosie O'Donnell, Sir Elton John and Jerry Springer.
Pardodied the closing scene of "Made in America", the series finale of Sopranos Behind-The-Scenes Bonus Features (1999), for her presidential campaign, entering a diner followed by her husband and daughter (June 2007).
Between 1992 and 2008, the former First Lady appeared on 24 covers of Time magazine setting a record unmatched by any other woman.
Sir Elton John raised $2.5m for her 2008 presidential campaign with a concert at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
Sought the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, and ultimately won 23 contests and 48% of the popular vote. Her win in the New Hampshire primary made her the first woman to win a major party presidential primary. On June 7, 2008, she suspended her run for president and endorsed the presumptive nominee, Senator Barack Obama.
When she was a young girl, was the president of Fabian's fan club.
One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. [April 2014].
Her first grandchild, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky, was born on September 26, 2014 to Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky. Her second grandchild, Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky, was born on June 18, 2016.
Said that The Wizard of Oz (1939) was her favorite movie as a child, and that Casablanca (1942) is her adult favorite movie.
She is a spicy food aficionado, often snacks on jalapeños, and carries hot sauce with her, as she says it helps her immune system. She mentioned this during an interview on New York City's 105.1 FM the Breakfast Club in 2016 and it became a minor controversy as the comment was accused of being pandering to black voters, as carrying hot sauce had been recently popularized by a lyric in the Beyoncé song "Formation", though Clinton has been quoted as far back as 1995 stating she carries hot sauce with her.
On June 7, 2016 she became the presumptive nominee for president of the Democratic Party, having won the majority of delegates against her primary opponent Bernie Sanders. She was formally nominated at the Democratic National Convention on July 26, 2016, becoming the first woman to be the nominee of a major party for president.
The New York Times endorsed her in the 2016 US presidential election, both in the Democratic primary and again for the general election.
Clinton is the first Democrat The Dallas Morning News, a typically conservative paper, endorsed for president in 75 years. [Sept 28, 2016].
Lost the 2016 U.S. presidential election to Donald J. Trump, as she lost the electoral college, though she won the popular vote by 2,868,686 votes.
In both her 2008 primary and 2016 general election presidential runs she won the popular vote while losing the contests, as neither were decided by direct plurality voting. In the 2008 Democratic primaries, she received more verified votes than Barack Obama while Obama received more delegates, though the true popular vote winner is impossible to determine as Obama did not appear on the Michigan ballot while Clinton did, and numerous states held caucuses that did not release vote counts. In the 2016 presidential election, she won the popular vote against Donald Trump but lost the electoral college.
Was paid $14 million advance for her memoir "Hard Choices.".
Earned her Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Yale Law School [1973].
Her ancestry is English, Welsh, smaller amounts of Scottish and French/French-Canadian, and remote Dutch and Swiss-French.
Inducted into the Maine South High School [Park Ridge, Illinois] Wall of Honor in 2013 (inaugural class).
(June 7, 2019) Her youngest brother, Tony Rodham, died at the age 64.
Hillary became a Grandmother of 3 on July 22nd 2019 when Daughter Chelsea and husband Marc Mezvinsky welcomed a baby boy named Jasper.
Personal Quotes (34)
[during her 60 Minutes (1968) interview in 1992 with her husband by Mike Wallace in response to how she feels about her husband's infidelity] I am not going to be some Tammy Wynette "Stand By Your Man..."
[speech to wealthy donors, June 28, 2004] Many of you are well enough off that... the tax cuts may have helped you... We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
[Interview on Today (1952), 1998] There is a story out there, for those who care to report it, and that is the vast, right-wing conspiracy that's been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for President.
[July 3, 2007] I believe that presidential pardon authority is available to any president, and almost all presidents have exercised it. This [George W. Bush's quick commutation of the sentence of convicted perjurer Lewis Libby, aka "Scooter", former Chief of Staff of Vice President Dick Cheney] was clearly an effort to protect the White House . . . There isn't any doubt now, what we know is that Libby was carrying out the implicit or explicit wishes of the Vice President or maybe the President as well, in the further effort to stifle dissent.
I always take time to worship God in as evangelical a way as is feasible, given time and location constraints. As you know, I consider myself an evangelical Christian, really a Christian conservative, if you want to know the truth, so it's nice to be home again in the South, which I really consider my quote-unquote home even though I live in New York most of the time. Well, Washington D.C. most of the time, actually, but if I'm not there I'm in New York, of course, but always thinking about being here, in the South, my spiritual home.
Some people think elections are a game: who's up or who's down. It's about our country. It's about our kids' future. It's about all of us together. Some of us put ourselves out there and do this against some difficult odds. We do it, each one of us, against difficult odds. We do it because we care about our country. Some of us are right, and some of us are not. Some of us are ready, and some of us are not. Some of us know what we will do on day one, and some of us haven't thought that through.
[Washington D.C. speech, June 2008] Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it. And the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time. That has always been the history of progress in America.
[Beijing Conference 1995] Tragically, women are most often the ones whose human rights are violated. Even in the late 20th century, the rape of women continues to be used as an instrument of armed conflict. Women and children make up a large majority of the world's refugees. When women are excluded from the political process, they become even more vulnerable to abuse.
I believe that, on the eve of a new millennium, it is time to break our silence. It is time for us to say here in Beijing, and the world to hear, that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.
These abuses have continued because, for too long, the history of women has been a history of silence. Even today, there are those who are trying to silence our words.
I believe that, on the eve of a new millennium, it is time to break our silence. It is time for us to say here in Beijing, and the world to hear, that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.
These abuses have continued because, for too long, the history of women has been a history of silence. Even today, there are those who are trying to silence our words.
[on personal power] Women are always being tested . . . but ultimately, each of us has to define who were are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into that.
If Hollywood and Bollywood were how we all lived our lives, that would surprise me. And yet it's often the way our cultures are conveyed, isn't it?
People watching a Bollywood movie in some other part of Asia think everybody in India is beautiful and they have dramatic lives and happy endings. And if you were to watch American TV and our movies you'd think that we don't wear clothes and we spend all our time fighting with each other.
People watching a Bollywood movie in some other part of Asia think everybody in India is beautiful and they have dramatic lives and happy endings. And if you were to watch American TV and our movies you'd think that we don't wear clothes and we spend all our time fighting with each other.
[on 10 August 2009, on being asked by an African student about President Bill Clinton's thoughts on Chinese economic policy] Wait. You want me to tell you what my husband thinks? My husband is not the Secretary of State -- I am. So you ask my opinion, I will tell you my opinion. I'm not going to be channeling my husband.
In the middle of the next crises, I'm cutting my hair. Believe me, we won't be reading about what war is going on.
[on Jason Segel's request that she appear in an upcoming project] I am a little occupied at the moment, but perhaps I can help you forget Sarah Marshall...again.
[on the murder of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya] He risked his life to stop a tyrant, then gave his life trying to help build a better Libya. The world needs more Chris Stevenses.
Anyone who says that racial discrimination is not a problem in American elections must not be paying attention.
[ducking a shoe at a recycling convention] My goodness, I didn't realize solid-waste management was so controversial.
I think the world is so complicated, the fewer corners that you can have, the better.
[advice to Yale graduates, at Commencement 2001] The most important thing I have to say to you today is that hair matters. Pay attention to your hair, because everyone else will.
Study after study has documented that when women have the opportunity to start businesses , own land, and receive credit, entire economies expand.
The current rules for our economy reward some work - like financial trading - much more than other work, like actually building and selling things.
[on the popularity of Donald Trump] A lot of people are understandably reacting out of fear and anxiety. Mr. Trump has a great capacity to use bluster and bigotry to inflame people and to make them think there are easy answers to very complex questions.
[in a primary campaign speech, February 2016] I don't think President Obama gets the credit he deserves for digging us out of the ditch the Republicans put us in.
I know what it's like to be knocked down and how you dust yourself off and you get back up and you keep fighting for what you believe in. But you do it within the process ..so that you can point to our political system working.
[on her presumptive win to head the Democrat ticket in the 2016 election] Barriers can come down. Justice and equality can win. This campaign is making sure there are no ceilings, no limits on any of us. This is our moment to come together.
[on Donald Trump] He says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia.
[on Donald Trump] I'll leave it to the psychiatrists to explain his affection for tyrants.
My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open markets and open borders.
It is unsavory, and it has always been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be. But if everybody's watching, you know, all the back room discussions and the deals,you know, people get a little nervous, to say the least. So you need both a public and a private position,
[After Donald Trump insisted she be drug-tested before the final 2016 presidential debate] I am so flattered that Donald thought I used some sort of performance-enhancer! Now actually, I did, it's called preparation.
Just yesterday one of Britain's most prominent right-wing leaders, a man named Nigel Farage, who stoked anti-immigrant sentiments to win the referendum to have Britain leave the European Union, campaigned with Donald Trump in Mississippi. Farage has called for a bar on the children of legal immigrants from public schools and health services, has said women are - and I quote - 'worth less' than men and supports scrapping laws that prevent employers from discriminating based on race. That's who Donald Trump wants by his side when he is addressing an audience of American voters.
'Change' might be the most powerful word in American politics. It's also one of the hardest to define. In 1992 and 2008, 'change' meant electing dynamic young leaders who promised hope and renewal. In 2016, it meant handing a lit match to a pyromaniac.
[observation, after her 2016 presidential election loss ] I have come to terms with the fact that a lot of people - millions and millions of people - decided they just didn't like me.
Sexism still exerts a pull on our lives and our choices. It is a very subtle but clear challenge that has to be acknowledged and confronted. So we have to be doing all we can to open the aperture of understanding and acceptance. My gender is my gender. My voice is my voice. I love to quote the first woman in a presidential Cabinet - Frances Perkins, who served under FDR - who said, "The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible." So embrace that, and be proud of it.
[observation, two years into the Trump presidency] I hoped that my fears for the future were overblown. They were not.
