A cause Clinton advocated throughout her tenure was the adoption of cookstoves in the developing world, to foster cleaner and more environmentally sound food preparation and reduce smoke dangers to women.
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Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born Hillary Diane Rodham, October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer and public speaker. She was First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, a United States senator from New York from 2001 to 2009 and the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 until 2013.
In 2000, Clinton was elected as the first female senator from New York and became the first First lady to simultaneously hold elected office, and then the first former First lady to serve in the Senate. She was re-elected in 2006 and chaired the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee from 2003 to 2007.
Vince FosterSpouse(s)Elizabeth Braden ( m. 1968)Children3EducationDavidson College (BA) University of Arkansas (JD)OccupationAttorney13 more rows
Hillary Clinton won many primaries and claimed the popular vote win, but lost the Democratic Party nomination to Barack Obama during the 2008 United States presidential election.
Yale Law School1969–1973Wellesley College1965–1969Maine South High School1964–1965Maine East High School1961–1964Hillary Clinton/Education
74 years (October 26, 1947)Hillary Clinton / Age
2008 United States presidential electionPartyCandidate%DemocraticBarack Obama / Joe Biden52.93%RepublicanJohn McCain / Sarah Palin45.65%IndependentRalph Nader / Matt Gonzalez0.56%LibertarianBob Barr / Wayne Allyn Root0.40%6 more rows
Obama defeated Romney, winning a majority of both the Electoral College and the popular vote. Obama won 332 electoral votes and 51.1% of the popular vote compared to Romney's 206 electoral votes and 47.2%.
In June 2018, Clinton got an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin. On 10 October 2018 She was awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Queen's University Belfast. On 23 September 2021 she was awarded the honorary doctorate in Civil Law from the University of Oxford.
Rose Law Firm entered the national news during the 1990s as part of the Whitewater controversy, as investigators sought to determine how much work Clinton had done for the firm while representing Jim McDougal in cases involving the latter's Madison Guaranty and Castle Grande enterprises.
60 years (August 4, 1961)Barack Obama / 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.
3 billion USD (2022)Donald Trump / Net worth
cheerfulHilary, Hilarie or Hillary is a given and family name, derived from the Latin hilarius meaning "cheerful", from hilaris, "cheerful, merry", which comes from the Greek ἱλαρός (hilaros), "cheerful, merry", which in turn comes from ἵλαος (hilaos), "propitious, gracious".
Hillary Clinton was born on October 26, 1947.
Hillary Clinton attended Wellesley College and Yale Law School.
Hillary Clinton was a U.S. senator from 2001 to 2009 and secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. She was the Democratic Party’s presidential candidat...
Hillary Clinton was a U.S. senator, secretary of state, and first lady. She was the first woman to be the presidential nominee of a major American...
Hillary Clinton was a U.S. senator, secretary of state, and first lady. She was the first woman to be the presidential nominee of a major American political party.
She taught at the University of Arkansas School of Law , and, following her marriage to Bill Clinton on October 11, 1975, she joined the prominent Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, where she later became a partner. Bill and Hillary Clinton on their wedding day, October 11, 1975.
What was Hillary Clinton famous for? Hillary Clinton was a U.S. senator from 2001 to 2009 and secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. She was the Democratic Party ’s presidential candidate in 2016 and first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, was president from 1993 to 2001.
Throughout Bill’s tenure as governor (1979–81, 1983–92), Hillary worked on programs that aided children and the disadvantaged; she also maintained a successful law practice. She served on the boards of several high-profile corporations and was twice named one of the nation’s 100 most influential lawyers (1988, 1991) by the National Law Journal. She also served as chair of the Arkansas Education Standards Committee and founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families . She was named Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983 and Arkansas Young Mother of the Year in 1984.
In 1974 Hillary participated in the Watergate inquiry into the possible impeachment of Pres. Richard M. Nixon. When her assignment ended with Nixon’s resignation in August 1974, she made what some people consider the crucial decision of her life—she moved to Arkansas.
Their only child, Chelsea Victoria, was born in 1980. Throughout Bill’s tenure as governor (1979–81, 1983–92), Hillary worked on programs that aided children and the disadvantaged; she also maintained a successful law practice.
Hillary Clinton, in full Hillary Rodham Clinton, née Hillary Diane Rodham, (born October 26, 1947, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. senator (2001–09) and secretary of state (2009–13) in the administration of Pres. Barack Obama.
On March 26, 2004, Clinton was presented with the inaugural Nursing Health and Humanity Award from the University of Rochester School of Nursing. On August 26, 2004, Clinton was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, ( LLD) by the University of Ulster.
An exhibit at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center also honors Hillary Rodham Clinton's time as First Lady of the United States. In May 1993, Clinton received an honorary doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. She also served as the university's commencement speaker that year. Around 1994, Clinton received the Living Legacy Award ...
In May 1998, Clinton received the United Arab Emirates Health Foundation Prize for her work in health and social welfare , especially as it related to women, children, and families.
On October 5, 2010, Secretary Clinton was given the George McGovern Leadership Award by the World Food Programme, for "her commitment and visionary approach to ending global hunger."
In addition, in November 2010, Time named Clinton one of the 25 most powerful women of the past century. Clinton has been named three times as Barbara Walters ' Most Fascinating Person of the year, in 1993, 2003, and 2013.
During 2007, Clinton was awarded an honorary doctorate in medicine by the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, for being "a strong advocate for increased investment in medical research" and for "raising awareness of the increased health problems linked to obesity, poor quality food and physical inactivity.".
Clinton has been named ten times in Time magazine 's Time 100 as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
2015 Inductee Hillary Clinton has served as Secretary of State, Senator from First Lady of Arkansas, a practicing lawyer and law professor, activist, (20) …
Then, in 1976, Bill Clinton was elected Arkansas Attorney General, and they moved to the state capital. Rodham continued using her maiden name, teaching law (2) …
Jan 18, 2020 — In 1994, Starr was appointed independent counsel in an investigation of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s involvement in a failed land deal dating (25) …
Jul 22, 2016 — Hillary Clinton has downplayed her decade-plus as a corporate attorney, but a review of her law career and interviews with former colleagues (27) …
Clinton “has incredible insight to the impeachment process both personally and professionally,” said author Amie Parnes, who has written a pair of books on Clinton’s two unsuccessful campaigns for president.
The memo they produced is an official government document and is still relevant today in large part because it helps define what is considered an impeachable offense.
Clinton and others on the bipartisan team produced a 64-page memo detailing the origins of impeachment dating to the British Parliament more than 400 years ago and the constitutional grounds that would be needed to impeach an American president.
The memo, an official government document, served as something akin to a road map for lawmakers as they embarked on the impeachment of Nixon. Over the course of four days in late July 1974, the House Judiciary Committee debated five articles of impeachment against Nixon and eventually approved three, accusing him of obstruction of justice, abuse of power and contempt of Congress.
In the 243-year history of the republic, just four U.S. presidents have faced impeachment inquiries. In a bizarre plot twist that reads like bad fiction, Clinton – a former first lady, senator, secretary of State and almost-president – is connected to three of them.
On Dec. 19, 1998, Bill Clinton became the second American president to be impeached when the House, voting mostly along party lines, approved two articles of impeachment accusing him of perjury to a grand jury and obstruction of justice. The Senate acquitted him of both charges the following January.
Before Watergate in the early 1970s – a scandal that would eventually end Nixon's presidency – no American president had faced impeachment since Andre w Johnson a century earlier.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton had five lawyers in tow when she arrived at the J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington for a voluntary interview with the FBI concerning her private email server. The attorneys in her retinue were a familiar cast, several having represented the Clintons from the earliest days ...
Mills’s role on Clinton’s defense team has stumped some observers, in so far as she was herself a subject of the FBI’s probe. As chief of staff to Cli nton, she may have had intimate knowledge of the private server and attendant logistical issues — and she almost certainly is well-versed with the materials therein.
Cheryl Mills. Like Kendall, Mills has been a mainstay of Clinton World since her tenure as deputy White House Counsel in 1990s. In the intervening years she joined the Department of State as Clinton’s chief of staff and counseled her 2008 campaign for president.
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