Sabtu, 10 September 2011

Hillary Clinton Biography

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (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 remarks that the speaker beginning at the first student in Wellesley College. She began a career in law after graduating from Yale Law School in 1973. After a stint as a lawyer of Congress, she moved to Arkansas in 1974 and married Bill Clinton in 1975. Rodham was a founding member of the Arkansas advocates for children and families in 1977 and became the first woman president of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978. Appointed the first female partner at Rose Law Firm in 1979, she was twice named as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America. First Lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and from 1983 to 1992 with her husband Bill as governor, she successfully led a task force to reform the education system Arkansas. She has served 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 New York, Clinton was elected U.S. senator in 2000. That the election was the first American first lady had run for public office, Senator Clinton was also the first woman to represent the State. The Senate, initially supported the Bush administration, some foreign policy issues, such as voting for the resolution of the Iraq war. He subsequently opposed the administration's war in Iraq, and most internal affairs. Senator Clinton was reelected by a wide margin in 2006. In 2008, the presidential election race Nominating Committee, Hillary Clinton won more primaries and delegates than any other female candidate in American history, but with limited player of Illinois Senator Barack Obama.

As Secretary of State, Clinton was the first former first lady to serve the president's office. He has put in place institutional changes to departments seeking to maximize efficiency and promote women in the world, and has established a record of the Secretary traveled longer in office. It 'been at the forefront of the U.S. response to the 2011 protests in the Middle East, including defense of the military in Libya.






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