Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton born on October 26, 1947) is an American politician and the Democratic Party
nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election. She served as
the 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, the junior United
States Senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, First Lady of the
United States during the presidency of husband Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001,
and First Lady of Arkansas during his governorship from 1979 to 1981 and from
1983 to 1992.
Born in Chicago and raised in the suburban town of Park
Ridge, Illinois, Clinton attended Wellesley College, graduating in 1969, and
earned a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1973. After serving as a congressional
legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas, marrying Bill Clinton in 1975. In 1977,
she co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. She was appointed
the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978, and, the
following year, became the first woman partner at Rose Law Firm. As First Lady
of Arkansas, she led a task force whose recommendations helped reform
Arkansas's public schools, and served on several corporate boards.
As First Lady of the United States, Clinton led the
unsuccessful effort to enact the Clinton health care plan of 1993. In 1997 and
1999, she helped create the State Children's Health Insurance Program. She also
tackled the problems of adoption and family safety and foster care. At the 1995
UN conference on women, held in Beijing, Clinton stated in a then controversial
and influential speech, that "human rights are women's rights and women's
rights are human rights". Her marriage endured the Lewinsky scandal of
1998, and her role as first lady drew a polarized response from the public.
Clinton was elected in 2000 as the first female senator from
New York, the only first lady ever to have sought elective office. Following
the September 11 attacks, she voted to approve the war in Afghanistan.
She has been a protector or her marriage to her husband,and inspir of pressure,she has stood close to her husband. She also
voted for the Iraq Resolution (a vote she later said she regretted). She took a
leading role in investigating the health issues faced by 9/11 first responders.
She voted against the Bush tax cuts. She was re-elected to the Senate in 2006.
Running for president in 2008, she won far more delegates than any previous
female candidate, but lost the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama.
As Secretary of State in the Obama administration from 2009
to 2013, Clinton responded to the Arab Spring, during which she advocated the
U.S. military intervention in Libya. She helped organize a diplomatic isolation
and international sanctions regime against Iran, in an effort to force
curtailment of that country's nuclear program; this would eventually lead to
the multinational Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreement in 2015. Leaving
office after Obama's first term, she wrote her fifth book and undertook speaking
engagements before announcing her second presidential run in the 2016 election.
Clinton received the most votes and primary delegates in the
2016 Democratic primaries, formally accepting her party's nomination for
President of the United States on July 28, 2016, with vice presidential running
mate Senator Tim Kaine. She became the first female candidate to be nominated
for president by a major U.S. political party. As part of her 2016 platform,
she has emphasized raising incomes, improvements to the Affordable Care Act and
reform of campaign finance and Wall Street. She favors allowing pathways to
citizenship for undocumented immigrants, expanding and protecting LGBT and
women's rights, and instituting family support through paid parental leave and
universal preschool.
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