Hillary Diane Rodham He was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 26, 1947. He grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois, in a Methodist family: his father, Hugh Ellsworth Rodham, was the son of English immigrants and manager of a textile factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and her mother, Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham, was a homemaker. Hugh and Tony are his younger brothers.
He spent his childhood and adolescence participating in various Park Ridge church and school activities. She practiced different sports getting some prizes for her activities in some women’s scout organizations. He attended Maine East High School, where he served as class president, student council member, and member of the National Honor Society. In his final year before graduation, he received the first prize in Social Sciences.
She grew up in a conservative family and had the opportunity to volunteer for Republican candidate Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential campaign.
He entered Wellesley College in 1965, becoming involved very early in political activities. In the following years, upon learning of the death of Martin Luther King (April 4, 1968), he lived that moment with great sadness, for that great character who Hillary he had met in person six years before.
He then attended Yale University School of Law. Her interest in the following years focused on the rights of the child and the family, a topic that she would continue with passion and dedication throughout the years, including during her career as a lawyer and politician.
After graduation he joined the legal staff of “Children’s Defense Fund“He then joined the group of lawyers of the” House Judiciary Committee “, the body responsible for the impeachment of Richard Nixon for the Watergate scandal.
Meanwhile, he continued his career as a lawyer: he turned down the offers of great studies and decided to follow his heart, captured by an Arkansas man: Bill Clinton. They then moved to Arkansas, where they were married in 1975, five years later their daughter Chelsea was born.
Meanwhile, the activity of Hillary was committed to providing legal assistance for child abuse. He organized and created the group the “Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families“She continued this activity, even when her husband was elected governor of the state. In the following years, his name entered the list of the 100 most influential lawyers in the United States.
Bill Clinton was elected president of the United States in 1992: the role of first lady Hillary clinton lasted for two terms, until 2001. During these years she traveled the world with her husband, but also alone, speaking and denouncing the conditions of deterioration and abuse of women, claiming the noble principle that the rights of women women are the rights of humanity.
The political activity of Hillary it continued to rise, until 2000, when she was elected to the Senate by the Democratic Party. Without abandoning social issues, he found himself at the forefront of dealing with the events that followed the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
With the endorsement and support of her husband, as well as tens of millions of citizens across the country, Hillary Rodham Clinton made an important decision for his future and that of the United States, which he announced at the beginning of 2007: his candidacy for President of the United States in the 2008 elections. After a long competition in the primaries, characterized by a daily head-to-head, the will, however, favored Barack Obama, as the Democratic candidate in the race for the White House.
Elected Obama (for two terms), Hillary clinton he served as Secretary of State between January 2009 and February 2013; she left her post at the end of Barack Obama’s first term, and was replaced by John Kerry.
Hillary He then set about preparing his candidacy for his party’s primaries: after months of heads-up with Bernie Sanders, in early June he officially became the candidate for the presidency of the United States of America; being the first woman in the 240 years of the history of that country, to aspire to the position.