William j. clinton birthdate

Bill Clinton  ©The 42nd president of the United States whose second term in office was dominated by scandal.

William Jefferson Clinton was born on 19 August 1946 in Hope, Arkansas.

His father died before he was born and his mother remarried a man whose surname Clinton took. He studied international affairs at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and then spent two years at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

In 1970, Clinton returned to the US to take a scholarship at Yale University Law School. While at Yale he met and married fellow student Hillary Rodham.

In 1973, he began to teach law at the University of Arkansas Law School, then resigned to run unsuccesfully for Congress.

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In 1976, he won his first political post, running for Arkansas Attorney General. Two years later he won the state governorship, but failed to be re-elected in 1980. He ran again successfully in 1982 and served in the post for a decade.

In 1992, he was selected as Democrat