Anonymous ID: 62c753 May 3, 2018, 11:54 a.m. No.1287732   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7859

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While applying for a job as a clerk typist at a textile company, she met a traveling salesman named Hugh Ellsworth Rodham,[4] eight years her senior, in 1937.[14] After a lengthy courtship, they married in early 1942.[4]

 

Their first child and only daughter, Hillary, was born on Sunday October 26, 1947. At the time of her birth, they were living in a one-bedroom apartment in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago.[15] The second child, a son named Hugh, was born in 1950 and during that year, the growing Rodham family moved into a two-story, three-bedroom house in suburban Park Ridge, Illinois.[15] The couple's third child, a son named Tony, was born in 1954. Dorothy was a full-time homemaker.[13][15]

 

Dorothy encouraged Hillary to have a love for learning and to pursue an education and a career, though she had never done so herself.[7] As she later recalled, "I never saw any difference in gender, as far as capabilities or aspirations were concerned. Just because [Hillary] was a girl didn't mean she should be limited."[15] In contrast to her husband's staunch Republican views,[16] Dorothy Rodham was, as her daughter later wrote, essentially a Democrat, "although she kept it quiet in Republican Park Ridge."[4] She taught Sunday school at the First United Methodist Church of Park Ridge.[13]

 

During the 1970s, once her children were grown up, Rodham took courses at Oakton Community College in a variety of subjects, receiving high grades and earning an associate's degree in liberal arts.[15][17] She was among the first mothers of that generation to return to school.[15] In 1987, Rodham and her husband moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, to be closer to their daughter and help care for their young granddaughter, Chelsea.[11][13] She took courses in subjects that happened to interest her, focusing on psychology but including logic and child development, although she never gained a further degree.[4][13] Her daughter later wrote in her 2003 memoir Living History, "I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman."[3]