William Jefferson Clinton is known as Bill Clinton was the 42nd president of the United States serving from 1993 to 2001. He was the governor of Arkansas form 197-81 and again from 1983-92 and the attorney general of Arkansas from 1977-79. He was a member of the Democratic Party and ideologically a New Democrat and many of his policies reflected a centrist Third Way political philosophy.
Bill Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. He holds American nationality. He attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., receiving a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service degree in 1968. He was an intern and then a clerk in the office of Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright.
Bill Clinton was born to a father named Willam Jefferson Blythe and a mother named Virginia Cassidy Blythe. His father died in a car crash three months before Bill was born. His mother moved to New Orleans, Louisiana to study anesthesiology, while Bill stayed with his grandparents, Eldridge and Edith Cassidy. His grandparent's attention on the young boy, instilling in him the importance of a good education. His mother returned to Arkansas with her nursing degree in 1950. Later, she married an automobile salesman named Roger Clinton, who soon moved the family back to his hometown of Hot Springs, Arkansas. His parent's divorced in 1962.
Bill Clinton second term in the White House was dominated by the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The president at first denied, and later admitted that he had sexual relations with Lewinsky, his White House intern. New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said that Clinton should have resigned and Lewinsky wrote that their relations were marked by inappropriate abuse of authority, station, and privilege. Clinton told interviewers in June 2018 that he would not have responded to the situation any differently, and that he felt no need to apologize privately to his former intern.
Bill Clinton was a married man with Hillary Rodham. Clinton met a bright young Wellesley College graduate. The pair graduated from Yale in 1973 and married two years later in 1975. They had an only child named Chelsea in 1980. Clinton became a grandfather on September 26, 2014, when daughter Chelsea gave birth to Charlotte Clinton Mwzvinsky. His second grandchild, Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky was born on June 18, 2016.
Bill Clinton estimated net worth is $80 million as of June 2017. He earned $189 million in book sales, speeches and consulting fees.