Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton (born Hillary Diane Rodham October 26, 1947) is a United States Senator from the state of New York. She is married to the former President of the United States Bill Clinton. When her husband was president, she was given the title of First Lady of the United States. She is a candidate in the 2008 election of a new President. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

She is a lawyer and was the First Lady of Arkansas before being First Lady of the United States. She began her first term as Senator January 3, 2001.

Hillary Clinton was the first First Lady to win election to public office. She ran for re-election to the Senate in 2006, which she won, and is considered by many in the media and politics as having a good chance to win in the race for the Democratic Party's US presidential nomination in 2008. And a possible Democratic candidate at the United States presidential election, 2008 in November. But as of may 7,2008 senator Barack Obama is in a lead in the state by state primaries.

1 Early life and education
2 Marriage and family
3 First Lady of the United States
4 Senate
5 Presidential campaign

Early life and education

Hillary Diane Rodham was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her father's name is Hugh Rodham, Sr., and her mother is Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham. She has two brothers, Hugh and Tony.

She studied at Maine East High School and Maine South High School. She completed her schooling in 1965, and enrolled at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.

In 1969, Rodham entered Yale Law School. She received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Yale in 1973. Then, she began a year of post-graduate study on children and medicine at the Yale Child Study Center.

Marriage and family

While working as a faculty member at the Law School of the University of Arkansas, she married Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton was also working as a faculty at the same university. Both knew each other and were classmates at the Yale Law School. Their only child is Chelsea Clinton, born on 27 February 1980.

First Lady of the United States

When she was First Lady, she tried to change the health care system. Some people didn't like it when the planning meetings were kept secret away from the public. In the end, too many people did not want the changes that she wanted.

Another major event during the time she was First Lady was when the public found out that Bill Clinton was with another woman, Monica Lewinsky. There was stress in the marriage partly because Bill Clinton had to go to trial (impeachment) because he was accused of lying to the court (during a deposition).

Senate

When she decided that she wanted to be Senator, she chose New York even though she never lived there. Some accused her of "carpetbagging" because of this. She went on to win the election and won a second term in 2006.

When the war between the United States and Iraq was about to start, she voted in favor of the war. Now she is opposed to the war and wants American troops to stop fighting rebel Iraqis.

Presidential campaign

Hillary Clinton had raised more money than anybody else in the 2008 Presidential campaign, but was later in a financial crisis for her campaign by May 7.