Hillary Clinton born October 26, 1947 is a former United States Secretary of State, United States Senator, and First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

Also, she was the first female candidate nominated by a majority democratic party, as well as the only First Lady candidate for public office.

From 2009-2013, she was the 67th secretary of the United States, serving under the presidency of Barack Obama. She early represented New York in the US Senate from 2001-2009.

Also, as the wife of President Bill Clinton, she was First Lady from 1993-2001. In the 2008 election, within the party, Clinton was a leading candidate for the presidential election. Clinton is admired all over the world, and not just within the US.

A native of Illinois, Hillary was involved in politics from the beginning, as a student at Wellesley College in 1969, then graduated as a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1973, Yale University.

After graduating from Yale University, Hillary became an accomplished lawyer, advising the Cambridge Children's Defense Fund before joining the legal team that advised the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment of President Richard Nixon over the Watergate scandal.

After a brief stint as a legal congressional attorney, she moved to Arkansas and married Bill Clinton in 1975, whom she had met in college.

Rodham chaired the Arkansas Court for Children and Families in 1977. In 1978, she became the first female chairman of Corporate Legal Services, and in 1979 the first female partner at the Rose Law Firm.

The National Law Journal has twice listed her as one of America's XNUMX Most Influential Lawyers.

As First Lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and from 1983 to 1992 with her husband, then-governor Bill Clinton, she led a task force to reform Arkansas' education system. During this time, she was on the board of Wall-Mart and several other corporations.

In 1994, as the First Lady of the United States, her major initiative, the Clinton health care plan, failed to win approval from the US Congress. However, in 1997 and 1999, Clinton played a leading role in advocating for the creation of the National Children's Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act.

During her years as First Lady she drew a polarizing response from the American public. The only First Lady to be subpoenaed, she testified before a federal grand jury in 1996 in connection with the Whitewater controversy, but was never charged with wrongdoing in that or several other investigations during the Clinton presidency. Also, her marriage experienced the Lewinsky scandal in 1998, a trial for the Clinton couple. Hillary Clinton has come out clean in all the investigations that have been done to her.

After transferring the state, Clinton was elected New York's first female senator; she was the only First Lady to ever run for this public office. After the 11/XNUMX terrorist attack, she supported military action in Afghanistan and the Iraq war resolution, but subsequently opposed the George W. Bush presidency's handling of the Iraq war and continues to oppose most of her domestic policies.

Clinton was re-elected to the Senate in 2006 in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, won far more votes in the primary than any other female candidate in American history, but narrowly lost the nomination for president, who went on to win the national election. .

Obama nominated Clinton as secretary of state, and she was confirmed by the Senate in January 2009. She has been at the forefront of the US response to the Arab Spring, including advocating US military intervention in Libya.

As Secretary of State, she took responsibility for the failure of security measures related to the 2012 Benghazi attack, which resulted in the death of US consular personnel, but defended her personal actions in the matter.

Clinton visited more countries than any other Secretary of State. It saw "smart power" as a strategy to assert American leadership and values, combining military power with diplomacy and American capabilities in the economy, technology, and other fields.