CLINTON, Hillary Rodham, (1947 - )

Senate Years of Service: 2001-
Party: Democrat

CLINTON, Hillary Rodham, (wife of President William Jefferson Clinton), a Senator from New York; born on October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois; attended public school in Park Ridge, Illinois; graduated Wellesley College, BA 1969; graduated Yale Law School, JD 1973; attorney; counsel, impeachment inquiry staff, House Judiciary Committee 1974; First Lady of Arkansas 1979-1981, 1983-1993; First Lady of the United States 1993-2001; elected to the United States Senate in 2000; reelected in 2006 for the term ending January 3, 2013; was an unsuccessful candidate for Democratic nomination for president 2008.


Bibliography

Clinton, Hillary Rodham. Living History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.