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May 5, 2024 · Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), who oversaw the country’s longest peacetime economic expansion. In 1998 he became the second U.S. president to be impeached; he was acquitted by the Senate in 1999. Learn more about Clinton’s life and career.
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(Top) Early life and career. College and law school years. Failed congressional campaign and tenure as Attorney General of Arkansas. Governor of Arkansas (1979–1981, 1983–1992) Presidency (1993–2001) Public opinion. Public image. Sexual assault and misconduct allegations. Post-presidency (2001–present) Personal life. Honors and recognition.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Learn about the life and career of Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, who served from 1993 to 2001. Find out how he rose from a young governor in Arkansas to a political leader who oversaw the longest peacetime economic expansion and faced impeachment. Discover his education, from high school to Oxford, and his early political influences.
- Bill Clinton: Early Life and Education. Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. He was the only child of Virginia Cassidy Blythe (1923-94) and traveling salesman William Jefferson Blythe Jr.
- Bill Clinton: Family, Arkansas Political Career and First Presidential Campaign. On October 11, 1975, Clinton and Rodham were married in a small ceremony at their house in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
- Bill Clinton: First Presidential Term: 1993-1997. Clinton was inaugurated in January 1993 at age 46, making him the third-youngest president in history up to that time.
- Bill Clinton: Second Presidential Term: 1997-2001. During Clinton’s second term, the U.S. economy was healthy, unemployment was low and the nation experienced a major technology boom and the rise of the Internet.
Bill returned to Washington to attend Georgetown University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1968 with a degree in international relations, and he won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University.
After graduating from Yale Law School, Clinton briefly taught law at the University of Arkansas. He ran for the United States House of Representatives and lost, in 1974, and then was elected state attorney general. In 1978, at the age of thirty-two, he became the youngest governor in the nation and in Arkansas history.
Overview. William Jefferson Clinton, the young President from Hope, Arkansas, succeeded where no other Democrat had since Franklin Roosevelt: he was reelected to a second term. Clinton also defied his critics by surviving an array of personal scandals, turning the greatest fiscal deficit in American history into a surplus, effectively using ...
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