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Full
Name |
Hillary Diane Rodham
Clinton |
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Profession |
US
Senator - (D) New York |
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Date of Birth |
Oct 26, 1947 |
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Birth
Place |
Edgewater Hospital,
Chicago, Illinois |
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Nationality |
American |
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Family |
Father:
Hugh Ellsworth Rodham
Mother: Dorothy Emma Howell
Brothers: Hugh and Tony Rodham
Husband: Bill Clinton
Daughter: Chelsea Clinton |
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Education |
School:
Maine South High School
College:
Wellesley College, 1969
Yale Law School, 1973 |
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Religion: |
United Methodist
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Marriage |
Married Bill Clinton
on October 11, 1975 in Fayetteville, Arkansas |
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Political Party |
Democrat |
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Bar Admissions |
Arkansas,
1973
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Arkansas,
1973
U.S. District Court Western District of Arkansas,
1973
U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 1973
U.S. Supreme Court, 1975 |
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Previous
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Offices
held:
First Lady of the United
States, 1993-2001
First Lady of Arkansas, 1978-1979 and 1982-1992
United States Senator, 2001-date
Occupation
* Staff member of
1974 Watergate impeachment inquiry
* Attorney, Rose Law Firm, Little Rock AR
* Board of directors of the Legal Services Corporation
* Faculty, University of Arkansas Law School,
1975
* Board Member, TCBY Yogurt Company, 1985-1992
* Board Member, Wal-Mart, 1985-1992
* Board Member, Arkansas Children's Hospital
* Board Member, Children's Defense Fund
* Co-Founder, Arkansas Advocates for Children
and Families |
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Favourites |
TV program:
American Idol.
Activity: Speed walking. |
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Loves |
Reading and crossword
puzzles |
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Car |
Ford hybrid |
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Subjects |
Was good at history
and not that much in math. |
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Pet |
Seamus (pet dog) |
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Books authored
by her |
* Dear Socks, Dear
Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets
* Living History
* It Takes a Village
* Witness to Genocide: The Children of Rwanda:
Drawings by Child Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide
of 1994 along with Richard A. Salem |
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Awards and Honours |
* Honorary doctorate
by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock
* Living
Legacy Award from the Women's International
Center
* In 1995, the New York University Annual Survey
of American Law dedicated its 52nd volume to
Clinton.
* won the Grammy
Award for Best Spoken Word Album for It Takes
a Village
* The United Arab Emirates Health Foundation
Prize
* Lifetime Achievement Award from the Children
of Chernobyl Relief Fund
* Mother Teresa Award, the highest honor
given to civilians by Albania.
* American
Medical Women's Association's President’s Vision
& Voice Award,
* An honorary doctorate from Agnes Scott College
near Atlanta
* Reserve Officers Association's National President's
Award.
* Was inducted into the National Women's Hall
of Fame.
* Was honored with the Remembrance Award from
the Northeastern New York Chapter of the Alzheimer's
Association.
* Clinton received an Energy Leadership Award
from the United States Energy Association's
Energy Efficiency Forum
* Was awarded an honorary doctorate in medicine
by the University of Gothenburg in Sweden
* Was ranked among the world's most powerful
people by Forbes magazine.
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|
Senator |
* In 2006, New Yorkers
reelected Hillary to the Senate with 67 percent
of the vote.
* She is the first New Yorker ever to serve on
the Senate Armed Services Committee, working to
see that America's military has the necessary
resources to protect our national security. |
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Mentors |
* Her high school
history teacher who introduced her to Goldwater's
classic The Conscience of a Conservative,
* Her Methodist youth minister with whom she saw
and met civil rights leader Martin Luther King,
Jr. in Chicago in 1962. |
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As a student |
* Was selected for
the National Honor Society when she graduated
from High School
* She became the first student in Wellesley College
history to deliver their commencement address |
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As a First Lady
the first one |
* To hold a post-graduate
degree and to have her own professional career
up to the time of entering the White House.
* To have an office in the West Wing of the White
House |
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About her husband |
"No one understands
me better and no one can make me laugh the way
Bill does. Even after all these years, he is still
the most interesting, energizing and fully alive
person I have ever met" |
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Residence |
Chappaqua, New York
United States |
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Official Website |
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/ |
