Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
By Madison Riggs
Hillary Clinton was a truly amazing woman. She accomplished many things. But let’s start from the very beginning. Hillary’s childhood. Hillary Rodham was born on October 26, 1947. She was raised in Park Ridge Illinois in the suburbs located 15 miles northwest of downtown Chicago. She was the eldest daughter of Hugh Rodham a fabric store owner, and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham. She has two younger brothers Hugh Jr. (born 1950), and Anthony (born 1954). As a young woman Hillary was active in young Republican groups and campaigned for Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. After hearing a speech as a young woman by Martin Luther King himself she was inspired to do some form of public service and became a democrat in 1968. Hillary went to Wellesley College, where she was active in student politics and was elected student class president before graduating in 1969.After that she attended Yale Law School where she met Bill Clinton. Graduating with honors in 1973, she went on to enroll at Yale Child Study Center, where she took courses on children and medicine and completed one post-graduate year of study. In 1971 Hillary first came to Washington D.C. to work on Senator Walter Mondale’s subcommittee on migrant workers. In the spring of 1974 Rodham became a member of the presidential impeachment inquiry staff. After former president Richard M. Nixon resigned in August, she became a faculty member of The University of Arkansas Law School, were her former Yale classmate and boyfriend Bill Clinton was also teaching. Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton on October 11, 1975 and their daughter Chelsea Victoria Clinton was born in 1980. Hillary joined the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock and, in 1977, was appointed to part-time chairman of the Legal Services Corporation by President Carter. As first lady of Arkansas for a dozen years (1979-1981,
By Madison Riggs
Hillary Clinton was a truly amazing woman. She accomplished many things. But let’s start from the very beginning. Hillary’s childhood. Hillary Rodham was born on October 26, 1947. She was raised in Park Ridge Illinois in the suburbs located 15 miles northwest of downtown Chicago. She was the eldest daughter of Hugh Rodham a fabric store owner, and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham. She has two younger brothers Hugh Jr. (born 1950), and Anthony (born 1954). As a young woman Hillary was active in young Republican groups and campaigned for Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. After hearing a speech as a young woman by Martin Luther King himself she was inspired to do some form of public service and became a democrat in 1968. Hillary went to Wellesley College, where she was active in student politics and was elected student class president before graduating in 1969.After that she attended Yale Law School where she met Bill Clinton. Graduating with honors in 1973, she went on to enroll at Yale Child Study Center, where she took courses on children and medicine and completed one post-graduate year of study. In 1971 Hillary first came to Washington D.C. to work on Senator Walter Mondale’s subcommittee on migrant workers. In the spring of 1974 Rodham became a member of the presidential impeachment inquiry staff. After former president Richard M. Nixon resigned in August, she became a faculty member of The University of Arkansas Law School, were her former Yale classmate and boyfriend Bill Clinton was also teaching. Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton on October 11, 1975 and their daughter Chelsea Victoria Clinton was born in 1980. Hillary joined the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock and, in 1977, was appointed to part-time chairman of the Legal Services Corporation by President Carter. As first lady of Arkansas for a dozen years (1979-1981,