Hillary Clinton
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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. She is a candidate in the 2008 election of a new President. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
She began her first term as Senator January 3, 2001. She is married to Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, and was First Lady of the United States during his two terms from 1993 to 2001. Before that, she was a lawyer and the First Lady of Arkansas.
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 the early front-runner in the race for US presidential nomination in 2008.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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 first and only child is Chelsea Clinton, born on 27 February 1980.
