Hillary Rodham Clinton

(Wife of President William Jefferson Clinton), a Senator from New York. Born on October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. Attended public school in Park Ridge, Illinois. Graduated Wellesley College, BA 1969. Graduated Yale Law School, JD 1973. Attorney. Counsel, impeachment inquiry staff, House Judiciary Committee 1974. First Lady of Arkansas 1979-1981, 1983-1993. First Lady of the United States 1993-2001. Elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 2000. Reelected in 2006, and served from January 3, 2001, until her resignation on January 21, 2009, to accept a Cabinet position. An unsuccessful candidate for Democratic nomination for president in 2008. Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Barack Obama, 2009-2013. Was an unsuccessful Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 2016. Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January 4, 2025.