Democratic Candidate for US President Hillary Clinton

US politician and the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate for the 2016 US elections, Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was born on October 26, 1947 in Chicago (Illinois, US).

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — In 1969, she graduated from Wellesley College and entered Yale Law School. In 1973, she received a law degree.

At university, she met her future husband Bill Clinton. In 1972, she worked on Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern’s campaign.

Upon graduation, Clinton worked at the Children's Defense Fund (Washington) for a year and worked on the legal staff of the House Judiciary Committee in 1974. Then she moved to Arkansas where future president Bill Clinton started his political career. They got married in 1975.

In 1975, Hillary Clinton became a teacher at the University of Arkansas School of Law. In 1977, she joined the Rose Law Firm (Little Rock, Arkansas).

In 1978, US President Jimmy Carter appointed Hillary a board member of the Legal Services Corp. where she stayed until 1981.

In 1978, she worked for Bill Clinton’s triumphant governor elections campaign. In the same year, Hillary became a partner in the Rose Law Firm.

As the first lady of the state for 12 years (1979-1981 and 1983-1993), Hillary Clinton got involved in numerous public projects, such as education, healthcare and children’s rights protection. In 1982-1992, she continued to work as a lawyer.

She became the first lady of the country following her husband’s victory in the 1992 presidential elections. The Clinton Administration drafted her to head the task force for the Clinton health care plan in 1993 – a job she left a year later.

In 1998, a high-profile scandal around Bill Clinton’s relations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky nearly ended in the president’s impeachment, but Hillary stood by her husband and chose not to leave him.

In 2000, Hillary Clinton was elected to the Senate from New York, and then re-elected in 2006.

In January 2007, Clinton officially announced her intention to run for nomination as the Democratic candidate for the 2008 presidential elections against Senator Barack Obama.

After losing to Obama in the primaries in the first half of 2008, Hillary Clinton announced her decision on June 7 to withdraw from the presidential race and back Obama’s candidacy.

After Obama’s election as president, she was put forward as Secretary of State. On January 21, 2009, the Senate approved her candidacy, and she officially held the position until her resignation on February 1, 2013.

In April 2015, Hillary Clinton decided to join the 2016 presidential race as the Democratic candidate. During the primaries, she gained enough votes to become the Democratic candidate for the US presidential elections. On July 26, 2016, the Democratic National Convention nominated Hillary Clinton for president.

Hillary Clinton is the author of the book It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us, (1996). In 1997, she won a Grammy award for the audio version of her book.

She has also written two books of memoirs, Living History (2003) and Hard Choices (2014).

Bill and Hillary have a daughter, Chelsea (born in 1980). In 2010, Chelsea married investment banker Marc Mezvinsky.