Hillary Clinton information

Hillary Clinton
Clinton in 2016
67th United States Secretary of State
In office January 21, 2009 – February 1, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Deputy	John Negroponte James Steinberg William J. Burns
Preceded by	Condoleezza Rice
Succeeded by	John Kerry
United States Senator from New York
In office January 3, 2001 – January 21, 2009
Preceded by	Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Succeeded by	Kirsten Gillibrand
First Lady of the United States
In role January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001
President	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Barbara Bush
Succeeded by	Laura Bush
First Lady of Arkansas
In role January 11, 1983 – December 12, 1992
Governor	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Gay Daniels White
Succeeded by	Betty Tucker
In role January 9, 1979 – January 19, 1981
Governor	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Barbara Pryor
Succeeded by	Gay Daniels White
11th Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast
Incumbent
Assumed office January 2, 2020
President	Ian Greer
Preceded by	Thomas J. Moran
Personal details
Born	Hillary Diane Rodham (1947-10-26) October 26, 1947 (age 76) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Political party	Democratic (1968–present)
Other political affiliations	Republican (1965–1968)
Spouse	Bill Clinton ​ (m. 1975)​
Children	Chelsea Clinton
Parents	Hugh Rodham Dorothy Howell
Relatives	Clinton family
Residences	Chappaqua, New York, U.S. Washington, D.C., U.S.
Education	Wellesley College (BA) Yale University (JD)
Awards	List of honors and awards
Signature
Website	hillaryclinton.com
Hillary Clinton's voice Clinton conceding the 2016 presidential election Recorded November 9, 2016

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (née Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as the first lady of the U.S. to president Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party and the first woman to win the popular vote for U.S. president.

Raised in Park Ridge, Illinois, Rodham graduated from Wellesley College in 1969 and from Yale Law School in 1973. After serving as a congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas and, in 1975, married Bill Clinton, whom she had met at Yale. In 1977, Clinton co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. She was appointed the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978 and became the first woman partner at Little Rock's Rose Law Firm the following year. The National Law Journal twice listed her as one of the hundred most influential lawyers in America. Clinton was the first lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 1992. As the first lady of the U.S., Clinton advocated for healthcare reform. In 1994, her health care plan failed to gain approval from Congress. In 1997 and 1999, Clinton played a leading role in advocating the creation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act. She also advocated for gender equality at the 1995 World Conference on Women. In 1998, Clinton's marital relationship came under public scrutiny during the Lewinsky scandal, which led her to issue a statement that reaffirmed her commitment to the marriage.

Clinton was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000, becoming the first female senator from New York and the first First Lady to simultaneously hold elected office. As a senator, she chaired the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee from 2003 to 2007. She advocated for medical benefits for September 11 first responders.^[1] She supported the resolution authorizing the Iraq War in 2002, but opposed the surge of U.S. troops in 2007. Clinton ran for president in 2008, but lost to Barack Obama in the Democratic primaries. After resigning from the Senate to become Obama's secretary of state in 2009, she established the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review. She responded to the Arab Spring by advocating the 2011 military intervention in Libya, but was harshly criticized by Republicans for the failure to prevent or adequately respond to the 2012 Benghazi attack. Clinton helped to organize a diplomatic isolation and a regime of international sanctions against Iran in an effort to force it to curtail its nuclear program, which eventually led to the multinational Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in 2015. The strategic pivot to Asia was a central aspect of her tenure, underscoring the strategic shift in U.S. foreign policy focus from the Middle East and Europe towards Asia. She had a key role in launching the United States Global Health Initiative, which aimed to increase U.S. investment in global public health, including combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Her use of a private email server as secretary was the subject of intense scrutiny; while no charges were filed against Clinton, the email controversy was the single most covered topic during the 2016 presidential election.

Clinton made a second presidential run in 2016, winning the Democratic nomination, but losing the general election to Republican opponent Donald Trump in the Electoral College, despite winning the popular vote. Following her loss, she wrote multiple books and launched Onward Together, a political action organization dedicated to fundraising for progressive political groups. Since 2020, she has served as the chancellor of the Queen's University Belfast.