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Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States
In office
January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001
Vice President Al Gore
Preceded by George H. W. Bush
Succeeded by George W. Bush
40th and 42nd Governor of Arkansas
In office
January 9, 1979 – January 19, 1981
Lieutenant Joe Purcell
Preceded by Joe Purcell (Acting)
Succeeded by Frank D. White
In office
January 11, 1983 – December 12, 1992
Lieutenant Winston Bryant (1983–1991)
Jim Guy Tucker (1991–1992)
Preceded by Frank D. White
Succeeded by Jim Guy Tucker
50th Arkansas Attorney General
In office
January 3, 1977 – January 9, 1979
Preceded by Jim Guy Tucker
Succeeded by Steve Clark
Born August 19, 1946 (1946-08-19) (age 64)
Hope, Arkansas
Birth name William Jefferson Blythe III
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Hillary Rodham Clinton (m. 1975–present)
Relations William Jefferson Blythe, Jr. (father, deceased)
Virginia Clinton Kelley (mother, deceased)
Roger Clinton, Jr. (half-brother)
Roger Clinton, Sr. (stepfather, deceased)
Jeff Dwire (stepfather, deceased)
Children Chelsea Clinton (b. 1980)
Alma mater Georgetown University (B.S.)
University College, Oxford
Yale Law School (J.D.)
Profession Lawyer
Religion Baptist
Signature Cursive signature in ink
Website William J. Clinton Presidential Library
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946)[1] is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States (1993–2001). Before that, he was Governor of the state of Arkansas. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation.[2] His wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, has served as the United States Secretary of State since January 21, 2009, and was Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009. Both Clintons received Juris Doctor (J.D.) degrees from Yale Law School.
Clinton has been described as a New Democrat.[3] Some of his policies, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and welfare reform, have been attributed to a centrist Third Way philosophy of governance, while on other issues his stance was left of center.[4][5][6] Clinton presided over the continuation of the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history (which began two years before Clinton took office).[7][8][9] The Congressional Budget Office reported a budget surplus in 2000, the last full year of Clinton's presidency.[10] After a failed attempt at health care reform, Republicans won control of the House of Representatives in 1994, for the first time in forty years.[11] Two years later, in 1996, Clinton was re-elected and became the first member of the Democratic Party since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second full term as president.[12] Later he was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with a scandal involving a White House intern, but was subsequently acquitted by the U.S. Senate and served his complete term of office.[13][14]
Clinton left office with the highest end-of-office approval rating of any U.S. president since World War II.[15] Since then, he has been involved in public speaking and humanitarian work. Based on his philanthropic worldview,[16] Clinton created the William J. Clinton Foundation to promote and address international causes such as treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS and global warming.
In 2004, he released his autobiography My Life, and was involved in his wife Hillary's 2008 presidential campaign and subsequently in that of President Barack Obama. In 2009, he was named United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti.[17] In the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Clinton teamed with George W. Bush to form the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.
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