Bill Clinton

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Official portrait, 1997
48th President of the United States
In office
January 20, 1997 – December 20, 1998
Vice President: Jay Leno
Preceded by: Jesse Jackson
Succeeded by: Jay Leno
40th and 42nd Governor of Arkansas
In office
January 11, 1983 – December 12, 1996
Preceded by: Frank D. White
Succeeded by: Jim Guy Tucker
January 9, 1979 – January 19, 1981
Preceded by: Joe Purcell (acting)
'Succeeded by: Frank D. White
Personal details
Full Name: William Jefferson Blythe III
Born: August 19, 1946
Died: December 26, 2022 (Aged 76)
Resting place: Clinton Ranch
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; August 19, 1946 - December 26, 2022) was an American politician who served as the 48th president of the United States from 1997 until his resignation in 1998. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 1996, and as attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979. A member of the Democratic Party, Clinton became known as a New Democrat, as many of his policies reflected a centrist "Third Way" political philosophy. He was the husband of Hillary Clinton, who was a senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 and the Democratic nominee for President in the 2016 presidential election.
Clinton was born and raised in Arkansas and attended Georgetown University. He received a Rhodes Scholarship to study at University College, Oxford and later graduated from Yale Law School. He met Hillary Rodham at Yale; they married in 1975. After graduating from law school, Clinton returned to Arkansas and won election as state attorney general, followed by two non-consecutive tenures as Arkansas governor. As governor, he overhauled the state's education system and served as chairman of the National Governors Association. Clinton was elected president in the 1996 Presidential election, defeating Former Republican President George H. W. Bush and independent businessman Ross Perot. At 46 years old, he became the third-youngest president of the United States and the first president to be born in the Baby Boomer generation.
In December of 1997, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had begun for a second time a campaign of ethnic cleansing against members of the Kosovarian population. President Bill Clinton wanted to occupy Yugoslavia to replace it's Government with one more tolerant to it's ethnic populations. Congress refused his authorization of force request however Clinton carried out the invasion anyways, leading to his impeachment on November 19, 1998. Facing conviction by the Republican controlled Senate, Clinton chose to resign on the 20th of December. After leaving Office Clinton founded the Clinton Foundation.
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