Hillary Diane Clinton (née Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the ...
Hillary Rodham Clinton served as a United States senator from New York from January 3, 2001 to January 21, 2009.
List of presidents by peak net worthNameNet worth (millions of 2022 US$)Political partyBill Clinton90DemocraticFranklin D. Roosevelt79DemocraticJohn Tyler68Whig / NoneBarack Obama48Democratic41 more rows
Edgewater Hospital, ChicagoHillary Clinton / Place of birth
cheerful, happyMeaning:cheerful, happy. Hillary as a girl's name is of Latin origin, and the meaning of Hillary is "cheerful, happy".
Hillary Rodham Clinton served as the 67th Secretary of State of the United States from January 21, 2009 to February 1, 2013.
3 billion USD (2022)Donald Trump / Net worth
The net worth of Donald Trump is not publicly known. Various news organizations have attempted to estimate his wealth. Forbes estimates it at $3 billion as of February 17, 2022, with Trump chronically making much higher amounts .
He'd amass another $5.6 million to reach $7 million by the time of his death in 2006. Ronald Reagan ranks second on our list for net worth when entering office. The one-time actor had $10.6 million to his name before starting the first of two terms in 1981, growing that to $15.4 million by the time he died in 2004.
Even though she had not yet reached the Constitutionally mandated age of 35 to serve as President, Victoria Woodhull is still regarded as the first female presidential candidate.
John F. KennedyAge of presidents The youngest to become president by election was John F. Kennedy, who was inaugurated at age 43. The oldest person to assume the presidency was Joe Biden, who took the presidential oath of office 61 days after turning 78.
75 years (March 12, 1947)Mitt Romney / Age
The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and the United States senator from Virginia Tim Kaine, in what was considered one of the greatest upsets in American history.
She was also a candidate in the 2008 and 2016 Democratic presidential primaries. In 2016, Clinton was her party's presidential candidate; she won the national popular vote in that election by nearly 3 million votes, but her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, won the Electoral College and thus the presidency.
New York's current U.S. senators are Democrats Chuck Schumer (serving since 1999, also serving as Senate Democratic Leader since 2017) and Kirsten Gillibrand (serving since 2009).
Bush and independent businessman Ross Perot in 1992. Four years later, in 1996, he defeated Perot again (then as the nominee of the Reform Party) and Republican nominee Bob Dole, to win re-election; in neither ballot did he obtain a majority of the popular vote. Clinton was succeeded by Republican George W.
Hillary Rodham was a 26-year-old lawyer for the Children’s Legal Defense Fund when she joined the impeachment inquiry staff. She was one of only three women among the 43 lawyers on the staff and had the title of counsel, lowest in the professional pecking order.
When she returned to Washington, Hamilton recalls, ″she said, ’I’m not used to this - everybody wanted to know what the candidate’s girlfriend thought.‴
There North Carolina Sen. Sam J. Ervin had engaged the nation with his tenacity and wit as he laid bare the crimes that would force Nixon from office.
Today Hillary Clinton is U.S. Secretary of State and seems to have her sights set on the Presidency in 2016, but in 1974 she was Hillary Rodham, an attorney on the Watergate investigation, and according to newly revealed information, an unethical one, at that. Interestingly, her dirty secret was revealed by a fellow Democrat.
How could a 27-year-old House staff member do all that? She couldn’t do it by herself, but Zeifman said she was one of several individuals – including Marshall, special counsel John Doar and senior associate special counsel (and future Clinton White House Counsel) Bernard Nussbaum – who engaged in a seemingly implausible scheme to deny Richard Nixon the right to counsel during the investigation.
Zeifman says he was urged by top committee members to keep a diary of everything that was happening. He did so, and still has the diary if anyone wants to check the veracity of his story. Certainly, he could not have known in 1974 that diary entries about a young lawyer named Hillary Rodham would be of interest to anyone 34 years later.
Hillary as an intern with Congress, Summer 1968. (Courtesy William J. Clinton Presidential Library) Hillary joins students and a faculty member at the Wellesley College Alumnae Council Student Panel, 1968. (Courtesy Wellesley College Archives)
Hillary at Lake Waban on the Wellesley College Campus, 1969. (Wellesley College Archives)
According to Gibson, Maupin Cummings , the judge in the case, kept a list of attorneys who would represent poor clients. Clinton was on that list and helped run a legal aid clinic at the time.
Audio tapes from the 1980s of Hillary Clinton describing the case to journalist Roy Reed surfaced in 2014 and were incorporated into a video clip associated with the image macro’s claims:
The victim says it was her mother, who had recently been abandoned by her husband, who pushed for a quick plea deal to avoid the humiliation of having her daughter testify in open court. The mother, who died several years ago, was so eager to end the ordeal she coached her daughter’s statements and interrupted interviews with police, Sgt. Dale Gibson [the department’s lead investigator] recalls.
What's True. In 1975, young lawyer Hillary Rodham was appointed to represent a defendant charged with raping a 12-year-old girl. Clinton reluctantly took on the case, which ended with a plea bargain for the defendant, and later chuckled about some aspects of the case when discussing it years later. What's False.
Hillary Clinton did not volunteer to be the defendant's lawyer, she did not laugh about the case's outcome, she did not assert that the complainant "made up the rape story," she did not claim she knew the defendant to be guilty, and she did not "free" the defendant.
The audio on these tapes is difficult to understand, but Clinton can be heard describing the case as “terrible.” She did audibly laugh or chuckle at points, not about “knowing that the defendant was guilty” or “getting a guilty guy off” (which makes little sense, given that the defendant pled guilty) but rather while musing about how elements of the case that might ordinarily have supported the prosecution worked in the defendant’s favor (i.e., observing that the defendant’s passing a polygraph test had “forever destroyed her faith” in that technology):
On May 21, 1975 , Tom Taylor rose in court to demand that Washington County Judge Maupin Cummings allow him to fire his male court-appointed lawyer in favor of a female attorney.