Secretary of Health and Human Services U. Secretary of Homeland Security U. Secretary of Labor U. Secretary of State U. Secretary of the Interior U. Secretary of Transportation U. Senator U. Supreme Court U. Trade Representative Vice President. Date: -. House Floor Speech — U. Hillary was the eldest daughter of Hugh Rodham, a prosperous fabric store owner, and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham; she has two younger brothers, Hugh Jr.
As a young woman, Hillary was active in young Republican groups and campaigned for Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater in Hillary attended Wellesley College, where she was active in student politics and elected senior class president before graduating in Graduating with honors in , she went on to enroll at Yale Child Study Center, where she took courses on children and medicine and completed one post-graduate year of study.
Hillary worked at various jobs during her summers as a college student. In , she first came to Washington, D. Senator Walter Mondale's sub-committee on migrant workers. In the summer of , she worked in the western states for the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern. In the spring of , Hillary became a member of the presidential impeachment inquiry staff, advising the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives during the Watergate Scandal.
After President Richard M. Nixon resigned in August, she became a faculty member of the University of Arkansas Law School in Fayetteville, where her Yale Law School classmate and boyfriend Bill was teaching as well. Hillary married Bill on October 11, , at their home in Fayetteville.
Before he proposed marriage, Bill had secretly purchased a small house that she had remarked that she liked. When he proposed marriage to her and she accepted, he revealed that they owned the house. Their daughter, Chelsea Victoria , was born on February 27, In , Clinton worked on Jimmy Carter 's successful campaign for president her husband Clinton was elected attorney general.
Bill was elected governor in at age 32, lost reelection in , but came back to win in , , when the term of office was expanded from two to four years and As first lady of the state for a dozen years , , she chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee, co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, and served on the boards of the Arkansas Children's Hospital, Arkansas Legal Services and the Children's Defense Fund.
In and , The National Law Journal named her one of the most powerful lawyers in America. During her husband's presidential campaign, Clinton emerged as a dynamic and valued partner of her husband, and as president, he named her to head the Task Force on National Health Reform The controversial commission produced a complicated plan which never came to the floor of either house.
It was abandoned in September During this period, she and her husband invested in the Whitewater real estate project. Whitewater later became the subject of congressional hearings and an independent counsel investigation. In , the White House was engulfed in the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.
Though she publicly supported her husband, Hillary reportedly considered leaving her marriage. He was impeached, but the U. Senate failed to convict and he remained in office.
In , Clinton decided she would seek the U. Despite early problems and charges of carpetbagging, Clinton beat popular Republican Rick Lazio by a surprisingly wide margin: 55 percent to 43 percent.
Clinton became the first wife of a president to seek and win public office and the first woman to be elected to the U. Senate from New York. She easily won reelection in November In early , Clinton announced her plans to strive for another first—to be the first female president. During the Democratic primaries, Senator Clinton conceded the nomination when it became apparent that nominee Barack Obama held a majority of the delegate vote. When Clinton suspended her campaign, she made a speech to her supporters.
Shortly after winning the U. She accepted the nomination and was officially approved as the 67th U. During her term, Clinton used her position to make women's rights and human rights a central talking point of U.
She became one of the most traveled secretaries of state in American history, and promoted the use of social media to convey the country's positions. She also led U. Hillary announced her bid in April She immediately entered the race with high name-recognition and a powerful fundraising apparatus. Clinton's main competition in the Democratic primary was Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders , a progressive populist who took aim at some of Clinton's more centrist policies.
In August of , after defeating Sanders, Clinton became the first woman in U. She named Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her vice presidential running mate. In November of that year, however, she lost the election to Donald J.
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