After receiving a law degree in 1973, he returned to Arkansas to teach law at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County). He graduated from Georgetown University in Washington DC, attended Oxford University in Oxford, England, on a Rhodes Scholarship, and received a law degree from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he met his future wife, Hillary Rodham of Park Ridge, Illinois. After he became president of the United States, he and his mother revealed that Roger Clinton had been an alcoholic who abused Clinton, Clinton’s mother, and Clinton’s younger half-brother, Roger.Ĭlinton was a precocious student, musically talented and popular. The family moved to Hot Springs (Garland County), where he graduated from high school. He changed his name to Clinton after his mother married Roger Clinton, a car dealer. After he became president, Clinton learned that his father had been married at least three times and that he had a half-brother and a half-sister whom he had never met. His father, a traveling salesman, was killed in an automobile accident before Clinton was born. Still, he left office in 2001 enjoying high popularity.īill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe IV on August 19, 1946, in Hope, the son of William Jefferson Blythe III and Virginia Cassidy Blythe. His presidency was beset by numerous investigations, one of which resulted in his becoming the first elected American president to be impeached. Throughout his political career, he demonstrated an ability to bounce back from defeats and scandal. It had been fifty years since the government ran three or more surpluses in a row (1947–1949).Ĭlinton was president during a period of intense partisanship. A controversial package of spending reductions and tax increases early in his first year in office and further budget changes in 1997 led to the elimination of deficits in the federal budget and to four successive budget surpluses. His election as president in 1992 was followed by the longest period of sustained economic growth in U.S. He persuaded lawmakers to enact numerous educational reforms, levy substantial taxes to improve education, and enact an array of laws to invite industrial development and spur business investment. Clinton was the second-youngest governor in the state’s history, after John Selden Roane, and the third-youngest person to become president, after Theodore Roosevelt and John Fitzgerald Kennedy.Ĭlinton’s years as governor were marked by extensive efforts to reform the public school system and to spur economic growth. Clinton’s tenure as governor of Arkansas, eleven years and eleven months total, was the second longest in the state’s history. William Jefferson Clinton, a native of Hope (Hempstead County), was the fortieth and forty-second governor of Arkansas and the forty-second president of the United States.
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