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William Jefferson Blythe aka Bill Clinton
Clinton was bornWilliam Jefferson Blythe IIIon August 19, 1946, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas.[4]
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).[5]
Blythe had initially survived the crash, but drowned in a drainage ditch. His parents married on September 4, 1943, but this union later proved bigamous, as Blythe was still married to his fourth wife.[6]
Virginia traveled to New Orleans to study nursing soon after Bill was born, leaving him in Hope with her parents Eldridge and Edith Cassidy, who owned and ran a small grocery store.[7]
At a time when the southern United States was racially segregated, Clinton's grandparents sold goods on credit to people of all races.[7][8][9][10][11]
In 1950, Bill's mother returned from nursing school and married Roger Clinton Sr., who co-owned an automobile dealership in Hot Springs, Arkansas, with his brother and Earl T. Ricks.[7]
The family moved to Hot Springs in 1950.[12]
Although he immediately assumed use of his stepfather's surname, it was not until Clinton turned 15[13] that he formally adopted the surname Clinton as a gesture toward him.[7]
Clinton has described his stepfather as a gambler and an alcoholic who regularly abused his family.
The physical abuse only ceased after a then-14-year-old Bill challenged his stepfather to "stand and face" him, though the verbal abuse continued.[14]
Bill would eventually forgive Roger Sr. for his abusive actions near the latter's death.[15][16]
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979 and as the governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992.
Clinton, whose policies reflected a centrist "Third Way" political philosophy, became known as a New Democrat.
Born and raised in Arkansas, Clinton graduated fromGeorgetown University in 1968, and later from Yale Law School, where he met his future wife, Hillary Rodham.
After graduating from law school, Clinton returned to Arkansas and won election as state attorney general, followed by two non-consecutive tenures as Arkansas governor.
As governor, he overhauled the state's education system and served as chairman of the National Governors Association.
Clinton was elected president in the 1992 election, defeating the incumbent Republican Party president George H. W. Bush, and the independent businessman Ross Perot.
He became the first president to be born in the Baby Boomer generation and the youngest to serve two full terms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton