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William Jefferson Blythe Jr. (February 27, 1918 – May 17, 1946) was an American salesman of heavy equipment and the biological father of Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States. Three months before his son was born, Blythe drowned following a car crash.
When William Jefferson Blythe Jr. was born on 27 February 1918, in Sherman, Grayson, Texas, United States, his father, William Jefferson Blythe Sr., was 36 and his mother, Lou Birtchie Ayers, was 27. He married Virginia Adele Gash on 9 December 1935, in Woodville, Marshall, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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- Wanetta Ellen Alexander, Virginia Adele Gash
The father of President Bill Clinton, who died in a car accident in 1946. See his birth and death dates, burial place, photos and source citation on this memorial page.
Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. He is the son of William Jefferson Blythe Jr., a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before his birth, and Virginia Dell Cassidy (later Virginia Kelley).
What little has been published is almost caricature: William Jefferson Blythe was a handsome traveling salesman from Texas who met pretty nurse Virginia Cassidy in a Louisiana hospital in 1942 ...
President William Jefferson (Blythe) Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, to Virginia Cassidy Blythe. Blythe was a young, recently widowed mother. Her husband, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., died a few months before Clinton’s birth in a car accident on his way from Chicago to Arkansas. Billy (Blythe) Clinton spent the first ...
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Bill Clinton's father, William Jefferson Blythe Jr. (February 27, 1918 – May 17, 1946), was a traveling heavy equipment salesman who died in a car crash three months before Bill was born. Blythe was born as one of nine children to William Jefferson Blythe Sr. (1884–1935), a poor farmer in Sherman , Texas , and his wife, the former Lou ...
