
Bill Clinton was born August 19, 1946. He is still alive.
Bill Clinton is famous for being the first democratic president to be
president for two terms since president Franlin Roosevelt.
Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe in Hope, Arkansas, on
August 19, 1946. He was named for his father, William Jefferson
Blythe, who had been killed in an automobile accident three months
before Bill's birth.
When he was 4, his mother married Roger Clinton, a car salesman, and they moved together as a family to Hot Springs, Arkansas. The boy later took his stepfather's last name.
Young Bill attended school in Little Rock. He was an honors student, played the saxophone, and was popular with his classmates.
After high school Bill went to Georgetown
University. Then he went to Ox Ford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
After that he went to Yale Law School where he meet his wife. There
he became a law professor at the university of Arkansas.
In his adult life he was elected the youngest governor in history at
the state of Arkansas at the age 32. After that he became the 42nd
president of the United States.
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