Hillary Diaue Rodhan Clinton born October 26, 1947 in American Politician who was
the 67th United States Secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 , U.S Senator in New York
from 2001 to 2009 . First lady of the Unite States from 1993 to 2001 , and the Democratic
Party's nominee for President of the United States in 2016 election.
Born in Chicago and raised in the Sub-urban town of Park Ridge, Illinois ,
attended Wellesley college, graduating in 1969 and earned J.D. from Yale Law School in 1973. After serving as a congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas and married Bill Clinton in 1975. In 1977, she co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. She was appointed the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978 and became the first woman partner at Rose Law Firm the following year. As First Lady of Arkansas, she led a task force whose recommendations helped reform Arkansas's public schools, and served on several corporate boards.
Clinton made a second presidential run in 2016. She received the most votes and primary delegates in the 2016 Democratic primaries, and formally accepted her party's nomination for President of the United States on July 28, 2016, with vice presidentialrunning mate Senator Tim Kaine. She became the first female candidate to be nominated for president by a major U.S. political party. As part of her 2016 platform, she emphasized raising incomes, improvements to the Affordable Care Act and reform of campaign finance and Wall Street. She favored allowing pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, combating climate change, expanding and protecting LGBT and women's rights, and instituting family support through paid parental leave and universal preschool. However, a controversy relating to a privately hosted email server during her tenure as Secretary of State became a significant issue, including in the closing days of the campaign. On November 8, 2016.
Clinton lost to Republican rival Donald Trump, failing to obtain the necessary 270 votes in the electoral college, despite receiving a plurality of the national popular vote. It was the fifth US presidential election where the candidate who received the most popular votes did not win the election.
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