LITTLE ROCK, Ark.â One of Hillary Clintonâs first assignments as a corporate lawyer landed her far from her roots. She helped overturn a ballot measure that increased electric rates for businesses and lowered them for the poor.
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Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Clinton graduated from Wellesley College in 1969 and earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1973. After serving as a congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas and married Bill Clinton in 1975.
Yale Law School1969â1973Wellesley College1965â1969Maine South High School1964â1965Maine East High School1961â1964Hillary Clinton/Education
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Upon graduating from Georgetown in 1968, Clinton won a Rhodes Scholarship to University College, Oxford, where he initially read for a B.Phil. in philosophy, politics, and economics but transferred to a B.Litt. in politics and, ultimately, a B.Phil. in politics.
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Clinton continued to practice law with the Rose Law Firm while she was the first lady of Arkansas. She earned less than the other partners, as she billed fewer hours but still made more than $200,000 in her final year there.
74Â years (October 26, 1947)Hillary Clinton / Age
The youngest to become president by election was John F. Kennedy, who was inaugurated at age 43. The oldest person to assume the presidency was Joe Biden, who took the presidential oath of office 61 days after turning 78.
60Â years (August 4, 1961)Barack Obama / Age
In 1872, Victoria Woodhull became the first female presidential candidate. Her candidacy preceded suffrage for women in the U.S.
57Â years (October 20, 1964)Kamala Harris / Age
One of Hillary Clintonâs first assignments as a corporate lawyer landed her far from her roots. She helped overturn a ballot measure that increased electric rates for businesses and lowered them for the poor.
Hillary Clinton with Bill Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea, in Little Rock, Ark., in September 1991. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. â. One of Hillary Clintonâs first assignments as a corporate lawyer landed her far from her roots. She helped overturn a ballot measure that increased electric rates for businesses and lowered them for the poor.
Hilary Rodham Clinton Keynote Speaker with The Harry Walker Agency Speakers 2013, after nearly four decades in public service as an advocate, attorney, (21) âŚ
Jul 22, 2016 â Hillary Clinton has downplayed her decade-plus as a corporate attorney, but a review of her law career and interviews with former colleagues (27) âŚ
In 1972, Mrs. Edelmanâs Washington Research Project, which later became the Childrenâs Defense Fund, and other groups published a seminal report, âItâs Not Over in the South: School Desegregation in 43 Southern Cities 18 Years After Brown.â That year, an estimated 535,000 students attended private schools in the South, compared with 25,000 in 1966.
With a nuclear plant under construction on the nearby Chattahoochee River, along with the Army base at Fort Rucker, outsiders were moving to Dothan, a city of 37,000 then, named after Genesis 37:17: âThey have gone away, for I heard them say, âLet us go to Dothan.â â
Mrs. Clinton spent part of that summer working on the issue of segregation academies, and only a couple of days in Dothan. But in many ways, her work on segregation academies best encapsulated her âcommitment to pragmatismâ in the struggle for equal rights, as her college adviser at Wellesley, Alan H. Schechter, described it.