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Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (née Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat.She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and the first lady of the United States as the wife of Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.
The Clinton Foundation (founded in 2001 as the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation, [7] and renamed in 2013 as the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation) [8] is a nonprofit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. tax code.
Before she became First Lady, New York's first female US senator, and the first major-party female presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton was a city girl who dreamed of being an astronaut or a ...
During her postgraduate studies, Clinton, at the time known as Hillary Rodham, worked as a staff attorney for Marian Wright Edelman's newly founded Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts, [1] and as a consultant to the Carnegie Council on Children. [2] Clinton received her Juris Doctor after graduating from Yale Law School in 1973. [3]
Secretary Clinton returns to the classroom after five decades to inspire a new generation of students. Hillary Clinton Launches the First Women-Led and -Founded Global Politics Institute Skip to ...
In 2004, Clinton co-founded and became the co-chair of the Senate India Caucus [39] with the aid of USINPAC, a political action committee. [40] [41] In 2005, Clinton voted against ratification of the Central America Free Trade Agreement, [42] believing that it did not provide adequate environmental or labor standards. [43]
Hillary Clinton’s Early Years. Clinton was raised in the Park Ridge suburb of Chicago, Illinois, with her father, a small drapery business owner, her mother, a homemaker, and her two younger ...
Clinton served as a director of the company. [5] The company, a community development bank, was founded by Clinton, her husband (Governor Bill Clinton) in partnership with local businesses and charitable leaders in order to meet a public need. [11] Clinton received no compensation from the role. [5]