Bill Clinton

42nd president of the United States
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Also known as: William J. Clinton, William Jefferson Blythe III, William Jefferson Clinton
Quick Facts
Byname of:
William Jefferson Clinton
Original name:
William Jefferson Blythe III
Born:
August 19, 1946, Hope, Arkansas, U.S. (age 78)
Political Affiliation:
Democratic Party
Awards And Honors:
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2013)
Notable Family Members:
spouse Hillary Clinton
daughter Chelsea Clinton
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Bill Clinton (born August 19, 1946, Hope, Arkansas, U.S.) is the 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), who oversaw the country’s longest peacetime economic expansion. In 1998 he became the second U.S. president to be impeached; he was acquitted by the Senate in 1999. (Read President Clinton’s Britannica essay on the Dayton Accords.) Bill Clinton’s father was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before his son was born. His widow, Virginia Dell Blythe, married Roger Clinton, and, despite their unstable union (they divorced and then remarried) and her husband’s alcoholism, her son eventually took ...(100 of 2412 words)