William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton
President
United States of America



William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton -- the President of the United States was born in 1946 in the small town of Hope, Arkansas. He attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., won a select Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University in England, and later went to Yale Law school. Clinton returned to Arkansas to teach law school, and was later elected Attorney General of Arkansas. At 32-years old, he became the youngest governor in the U.S. As governor of Arkansas, he concentrated on improving the state's educational system and building better roads; after one defeat, he was re-elected Governor three times. In 1992, Clinton ran for President, was nominated by the Democratic Party, and defeated President George Bush in the general election. On January 20, 1993, Bill Clinton was sworn in as the 42nd President of the United States, and moved into the White House with his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton and their daughter Chelsea.

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