Biography of Hillary Clinton
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October 26, 1947Hillary Diane Rodham was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 26, 1947. Grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois, into a Methodist family: her father, Hugh Ellsworth Rodham, was the son of English immigrants and Manager of a textile manufacturer in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and her mother, Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham, was just a housewife. Hugh and Tony are his siblings. He spent his childhood and adolescence engaged in various activities of the Church and school in Park Ridge. Practice different sports getting some awards for his activity in some women's organizations to scout. He attended Maine East High School where he was class President, Student Council member and member of the National Honor Society.
Follows then graduating from Maine South High School during his senior year, receiving first prize in social sciences. Raised in a conservative family, he worked as a volunteer for the Republican candidate Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential campaign. Entry in 1965 at Wellesley College, and soon became active in politics. In the following years learns of the death of Martin Luther King (April 4, 1968) and lives with sadness that time, for that great mid-century contemporary character that Hillary had got to know in person six years earlier. He then attended law school at Yale University.
His interest in these years focuses on the rights of the child and the family, which will continue with passion and dedication over the years, even during his career as a lawyer and political figure. After graduating joined the team of lawyers of the "Children's Defense Fund" American. Then enters the Group of lawyers (it is one of only two women who make up the staff) of the House Judiciary Committee, the body responsible for the trial of the impeachment of Richard Nixon for the Watergate scandal. The career of Attorney continues: reject offers from major studios to decide to follow the heart, kidnapped by a man from Arkansas named Bill Clinton. He moved then to Arkansas where the two are joined in marriage in 1975: five years later her daughter Chelsea. Meanwhile Hillary's activity is aimed at providing legal aid for child abuse.
Organises and creates the "Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families". Carries out this task even when her husband was elected Governor of the State. In the following years his name goes on the list of 100 most influential lawyers in America. Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States in 1992: the role of First Lady Hillary will run for two terms, until 2001. In these years he travels the globe with her husband but also alone, to talk and to denounce the conditions of degradation and abuse of women by supporting the noble principle that women's rights are human rights. Hillary's political activity continues, rising, until 2000, when she was elected to the Senate in the ranks of the Democratic Party.
Without abandoning social issues dear to her, she found herself starring in September 11, 2001 terrorist acts followed face facts. Endorsed and supported by her husband, as well as tens of millions of citizens across the country, Hillary Rodham Clinton took a big decision about his future and that of the us, announcing in early 2007 his candidacy for President of the United States for the elections of 2008. After a long run for the primaries characterized by a daily head-to-head, but Barack Obama will be the Democratic candidate in the race for the White House.
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