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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe incredible life of dedication bio of Hillary R Clinton
Her parents were Republicans and Clinton served as president of Wellesleys Republican club, but the social issues of the late 1960s led her to become a dedicated Democrat. When her classmates elected her as Wellesleys first student speaker at graduation, she said to her peers: The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.In 1969, Clinton attended Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors for the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. It was there that Clinton met her future husband, William Bill Clinton. After she graduated, Clinton turned down offers from lucrative law firms to work for the Childrens Defense Fund, as well as on the congressional committee that investigated the Watergate scandal.
Clinton then moved to the university town of Fayetteville, Arkansas where she joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas Law School. In 1975 she and Bill Clinton were married. The following year, Clinton joined the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock. The couples daughter Chelsea was born in 1980. Then in 1988 and 1991, Clinton was named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America.
Clinton continued to practice law after Bill Clinton became governor of Arkansas, while also serving as a very active first lady. She led the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee, which greatly improved schools, and promoted programs that benefit women.
In 1992, when Bill Clinton was elected president, Clinton became the first First Lady to hold a law degree.
She continued her tradition of public service, most notably leading an attempt to reform the nations health care. However, the effort failed in the mid-1990s. Clinton continued to work on the edges of the issue, helping to establish the 1997 Children's Health Insurance Program.
Clinton was constantly traveling during her time as First Lady. She often took her daughter along when she visited women in Africa and Asia, and in 1995, she was criticized for joining the American delegation to Beijing for the United Nations conference on womens rights. This convocation had been held every five years since 1975, but no first lady had attended it.
Clinton ran in 2000 for the New York Senate seat being vacated by Daniel Monahan, who supported her. Many accused her of being a carpetbagger because she had never lived in New York, but voters chose her by a solid 55% majority. She served on four major Senate committees: Armed Services; Budget; Environment and Public Works; and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. New Yorkers gained confidence in her, and Clinton easily won her 2006 reelection.
On January 20, 2007 Clinton announced her candidacy for president, and joined the historic 2008 race. Although Clinton received roughly 18 million votes, she lost in the Democratic Primary to Senator Barack Obama, who went on to win the presidency. Clinton served as Secretary of State for the Obama administration from 2009-2013. During this time, Clinton focused on women and human rights.
On April 12, 2015, Clinton announced her second run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Though she won the popular vote 48.2% to 46.1%, she lost the presidential race to her Republican opponent ..in the Electoral College.
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FROM: Women in History/The National Women's History Museum
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/hillary-clinton
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