A member of the Democratic Party, Clinton was known as a New Democrat, and many of his policies reflected a centrist 'Third Way' political philosophy. He is the husband of former secretary of state, former U.S. senator, and two-time candidate for president Hillary Clinton. Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. He is the son of William Jefferson Blythe Jr., a traveling salesman who had died in an automobile accident three months before his birth, and Virginia Dell Cassidy (later Virginia Kelley). His parents had married on September 4, 1943, but this union later proved to be bigamous, as Blythe was still married to his third wife. He briefly considered dedicating his life to music, but as he noted in his autobiography My Life:Sometime in my sixteenth year, I decided I wanted to be in public life as an elected official.
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