William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician and attorney. He served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He is the husband of former secretary of state, former U.S. senator, and two-time candidate for president Hillary Clinton. Clinton was born and raised in Arkansas and attended Georgetown University, University College, Oxford, and Yale Law School.
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William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician and attorney. He served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Prior to his presidency, he served as governor of Arkansas and as attorney general of Arkansas. He is the husband of former secretary of state, former U.S. senator, and two-time candidate for president Hillary Clinton. Clinton was born and raised in Arkansas and attended Georgetown University, University College, Oxford, and Yale Law School. He met Hillary Rodham at Yale and they were married in 1975. Clinton left office with the highest end-of-office approval rating of any U. S. president since World War II. He has been involved in public speaking and humanitarian work. He created the William J. Clinton Foundation to address international causes such as the prevention of AIDS and global warming. In 2009, he was named the United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti and after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, he teamed up with George W. Bush to form the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. Clinton is the son of William Jefferson Blythe III, a traveling salesman who had died in an automobile accident three months before his birth, and Virginia Dell Cassidy. His parents had married on September 4, 1943, but this union later proved to be bigamous, as Bly the was still married to his third wife. In 1950, Bill Clinton Sr. married Roger Clinton, who co-owned an automobile dealership in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Although he assumed his stepfather’s surname, it was not until he turned 15 that he formally adopted Clinton as a gesture toward his half-brother, Roger Ricks Jr.
Clinton has described his step-father as a gambler who regularly abused his mother and regularly threatened his brother with an alcoholic drink. In 1998, Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives, becoming the second U. s. president to be impeached, after Andrew Johnson. The impeachment was based on accusations that Clinton committed perjury and obstruction of justice for the purpose of concealing his affair with Monica Lewinsky, a 22-year-old White House intern. He was acquitted by the Senate and completed his second term in office. In 1996, Clinton became the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt to be elected to a second full term. He also appointed Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer to the U. S. Supreme Court. In 2004, Clinton published his autobiography, My Life. He currently serves as the UN Special En envoy to Haiti. He secured the release of two American journalists imprisoned by North Korea, visiting the capital Pyongyang in 2009 and negotiating their release with then-North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. In 2010, he visited the capital Seoul and met with President Barack Obama to discuss the crisis in the Middle East. In 2011, he became the United Kingdom’s ambassador to the UN in Haiti. In 2012, he helped form a special committee to investigate the earthquake in Haiti and the aftermath of the earthquake. In 2013, he traveled to Haiti to meet with U.N. Secretary-General Boutrous.
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