Clinton

« Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was born on October the 26 1947.

She is a former United States Secretary of State, U.S.

Senator, and First Lady of the United States.

Indeed, she was the 67th (United States) Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, she served under Obama.

She previously represented New York in the U.S.

Senate (2001 to 2009).

Before that, as the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001.

In the 2008 election, Clinton was a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.

She went to Yale Law School, which was and still is a prestigous law school in the country.c When Bill Clinton took office as president in January 1993, Hillary Rodham Clinton became the First Lady of the United States, and announced that she would be using that form of her name.

She was the first First Lady to hold a postgraduate degree and to have her own professional career up to the time of entering the White House.

She was also the first to have an office in the West Wing of the White House in addition to the usual First Lady offices in the East Wing.

She was part of the innermost circle vetting appointments to the new administration and her choices filled at least eleven top-level positions and dozens more lower-level ones.

After Eleanor Roosevelt, Clinton is regarded as the most openly empowered presidential wife in American history.w Clinton had been preparing for a potential candidacy for United States President since at least early 2003.

On January 20, 2007, she announced via her website the formation of a presidential exploratory committee for the United States presidential election of 2008, stating "I'm in, and I'm in to win." No woman had ever been nominated by a major party for the presidency.

When Bill Clinton became president in 1993, a blind trust was established; in April 2007 the Clintons liquidated the blind trust to avoid the possibility of ethical conflicts or political embarrassments as Hillary Clinton undertook her presidential race.

Later disclosure statements revealed that the couple's worth was now upwards of $50 million, and that they had earned over $100 million since 2000, with most of it coming from Bill Clinton's books, speaking engagements, and other activities.c Throughout the first half of 2007, Clinton led candidates competing for the Democratic presidential nomination in opinion polls for the election.

Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina were her strongest competitors.

The biggest threat to her campaign was her past support of the Iraq War, which Obama had opposed from the beginning.

Clinton and Obama both set records for early fundraising, swapping the money lead each quarter.. »