Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton was First Lady, a senator, Secretary of State, and the first woman nominated for president by a major American party. Born in Chicago in 1947 and raised in Park Ridge, she was a Republican in her youth, campaigning for Barry Goldwater in 1964, and changed her politics at Wellesley, where her commencement address in 1969 was reported nationally. She took a law degree at Yale, where she met Bill Clinton. She worked for the Children's Defense Fund, served on the House impeachment inquiry staff during Watergate, and moved to Arkansas, teaching law and becoming the first woman partner at the Rose Law Firm while her husband became governor. As First Lady from 1993 she led the task force on health care reform, which failed in Congress in 1994 and contributed to the Democrats' loss of both chambers. She helped secure the Children's Health Insurance Program in 1997, and her 1995 speech in Beijing asserting that women's rights are human rights was widely influential. She endured the public exposure of her husband's affair and impeachment in 1998. She won a New York Senate seat in 2000, the only First Lady ever elected to office, and served two terms, voting for the Iraq war authorisation in 2002 — a vote she later called a mistake and which cost her the 2008 nomination against Barack Obama. She was Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, travelling to 112 countries, and supported the Libya intervention. She won the 2016 nomination and the popular vote by nearly three million, and lost the electoral college to Donald Trump amid an FBI inquiry into her use of a private email server.
- Lived: 1947 CE – ?
- Nationality: American
- Roles: senator
