Bill Clinton

Clinton, Bill (1946- ), 42nd president of the United States (1993- ) and the first Democrat to win a presidential election since 1976. Clinton, who was in his fifth term as the governor of Arkansas, was one of the youngest candidates ever elected to the presidency.

Clinton was born in Hope, Arkansas, as William Jefferson Blythe IV. His father, William Jefferson Blythe III, died in a car accident three months before Bill was born. His mother, Virginia Cassidy, married Roger Clinton when Bill was four years old, and the family moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas. At the age of 15 Bill legally changed his last name to Clinton. He attended Georgetown University, Oxford University (as a Rhodes scholar), and Yale University Law School, where he graduated in 1973.

Back