Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is the junior United States Senator from New York. 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.
She began her career as a lawyer after graduating from Yale Law School in 1973, moving to Arkansas and marrying Bill Clinton in 1975, following her career as a Congressional legal counsel; she was named the first female partner at Rose Law Firm in 1979 and was listed as one of the one 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 the board of Wal-Mart and several other corporate boards.
On February 27, 1980, Rodham gave birth to a daughter, Chelsea, her only child. Her name was inspired by her parents' fondness for Judy Collins's recording of the Joni Mitchell song "Chelsea Morning".
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Since her path-breaking election to the United States Senate, Hillary has been a steadfast advocate for middle-class families, working to help create jobs, expand children's health care and protect Social Security from privatization. As the Senator representing New York after 9/11, Hillary has fought to strengthen our approach to homeland security and to improve our communications and intelligence operations. As the first New Yorker ever named to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Hillary has been a tough critic of the administration's bungling of Iraq and a fierce advocate for proper equipment, health benefits, and treatment for military families.
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She was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Edwin John Howell, Jr. (1897-1946), a Chicago firefighter, and Della Murray (1902-1960). Her sister is Isabelle Howell (born 1924). The parents paid only sporadic attention to the children, then divorced in 1927. The children were then sent to live with their paternal grandparents in the Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra, California. After Dorothy graduated from Alhambra High School in 1937, she moved to Chicago for a failed reunion with her mother. Subsequently, she moved into her own apartment there and took office jobs to support herself.
While applying for a job as a clerk typist at a textile company, Dorothy met traveling salesman Hugh Ellsworth Rodham, in 1937. After a lengthy courtship, they married in early 1942. She became a full-time homemaker, raising three children, Hillary, Hugh and Tony. She encouraged Hillary to pursue an education and a career, though she had never done so herself.
In 1987, Dorothy and her husband moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, to be closer to their daughter and granddaughter, Chelsea. An excellent student as a youth, Dorothy Rodham now took college courses in subjects such as psychology, logic and child development, although she never graduated.
Hugh Rodham died in 1993. By the 2000s, Dorothy was living in her daughter's large Whitehaven house in Washington, D.C., NW. Dorothy Rodham values her privacy and rarely speaks to the media.
