After graduating from law school, Clinton returned to Arkansas and won election as the attorney general of Arkansas, serving from 1977 to 1979. Clinton was elected president in 1992, defeating incumbent Republican opponent George H. W. Bush. At age 46, he became the third-youngest president in history. In Hot Springs, Clinton attended St. John's Catholic Elementary School, Ramble Elementary School, and Hot Springs High School, where he was an active student leader, avid reader, and musician. That was the first time I encountered the idea that liberal sensitivities weren't enough and you had to do something about such things'. He also developed an interest in rugby union, which he played at Oxford.While Clinton was president in 1994, he received an honorary degree and a fellowship from the University of Oxford, specifically for being 'a doughty and tireless champion of the cause of world peace', having 'a powerful collaborator in his wife,' and for winning 'general applause for his achievement of resolving the gridlock that prevented an agreed budget'.