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Bill Clinton. Clinton, Bill, born in 1946 ... whom he had never met. Bill took the
name William Jefferson Clinton after his mother remarried. ...
Short Summary Of Bill Clinton’s Life. Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe
III on August 19, 1946, in the small town of Hope, Arkansas. ...
Short Summary Of Bill Clinton’s Life. Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe
III on August 19, 1946, in the small town of Hope, Arkansas. ...
Bill Clinton's Life. Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III
on August 19, 1946, in the small town of Hope, Arkansas. ...
Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August
19, 1946, in the small town of Hope, Arkansas. He was ...
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Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe IV on August 19, 1946, in the small town of Hope, Arkansas. He was named after his father, William Jefferson Blythe III who had been killed in a car accident just three months before his son was born. After his mother remarried, the future president took the last name of his stepfather, Roger Clinton. Bill Clinton attended pubic schools in Hot Springs, Arkansas, after moving there from Hope, Arkansas. Bill Clinton as a child went to St. John's Catholic School and Ramble Elementary School. While at Hot Springs High School, Clinton was an excellent student and a talented saxophonist.
After a fateful meeting with President John F. Kennedy, while still in high school, he made up his mind to enter politics. The meeting came about in 1963, when he was a delegate to the American Legion Boys' Nation, a youth program in which students learn about government. Clinton was part of a group that was invited to the White House to meet the president. Kennedy, who only months later was to be assassinated, shook hands with the young Clinton and made a lasting impression on him.
Bill Clinton won student elections at high school and later at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Clinton attended Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar from 1968-1970 and graduated from Yale Law School in 1973. After graduating from Yale Law School, Clinton briefly taught law at the University of Arkansas. In 1974, Clinton ran for the United States House of Representatives and lost, but was later elected state attorney general. The next year Clinton married Hillary Rodham a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School. In 1980 they had their only child Chelsea Clinton. In 1978, Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas for five terms. After losing his bid for reelection in 1980 to Frank D. Wright he won back the governorship in 1982, and won again in 1984 and 1986. Clinton came back to win four terms,...
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