Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( hɪləri rɒdəm daɪæn klɪntən /, born October 26, 1947) is the 67th U.S. Secretary of State to serve in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a U.S. Senator in New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of 42nd U.S. President, Bill Clinton was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. In the 2008 election, Clinton was one of the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination for president.

A native of Illinois, Hillary Rodham first attracted national attention in 1969 for his intervention as the first speaker begins a student at Wellesley College. He began his career in law degree from Yale Law School in 1973. The Following stints as a lawyer in Congress, he moved to Arkansas in 1974 and married Bill Clinton in 1975. Rodham co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families in 1977 and became the first female president of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978. Appointed the first female partner at Rose Law Firm in 1979, has twice been mentioned as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America. First Lady of Arkansas 1979-1981 and 1983-1992 with her husband Bill as governor, he successfully led the working group to reform the educational system, Arkansas. He sat on the board of Wal-Mart and several other companies.

In 1994, the first lady of the United States, with a major initiative, Clinton health care plan, failed to obtain approval from the U.S. Congress. However, between 1997 and 1999, Clinton played a role in favor of the creation of the Program of State Children's Health Insurance, Adoption and Safe Families Act and foster care in the Independence Act. The years of the First Lady has a polarized response to the American public. Only First Lady to have been sued, testified to a federal grand jury in 1996, as the Whitewater controversy, but has never been accused of wrongdoing, or several other investigations during her husband's administration. The state of his marriage has been the subject of much speculation after the Lewinsky scandal in 1998.

After moving to upstate New York, Clinton was elected U.S. Senator in 2000. This election marked the first time a U.S. woman had a first public office, Clinton was also the first woman senator representing the state. In the Senate, which initially supported the Bush administration on some foreign policy issues, including a vote for the resolution of the Iraq war. Later he opposed the administration's conduct of the war in Iraq and most domestic issues. Senator Clinton was reelected by a wide margin in 2006. In the race for the 2008 presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton won the primaries and delegates than any other female candidate in American history, but narrowly lost to Illinois Senator Barack Obama.

As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton became the first former first lady to serve in the office of a president. It has established the institutional changes that seek to maximize the efficiency of departments and promote the empowerment of women worldwide, and has set records busiest secretary in the office. She has been at the forefront of U.S. response the protests of 2011 in the Middle East, including the promotion of military intervention in Libya.