Bill Clinton

BIRTH NAME
William Jefferson Blythe III

POLITICAL PARTY
Democrat

RELIGION
Baptist

EDUCATION
Georgetown University B.S. 1968; Oxford; Yale Law School JD 1973

VITALS
6 ft 2 in / 223 lbs

CAREER
1973-76 Law teacher, University of Arkansas, Little Rock
1974 Unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Representative, Arkansas
1977-79 Attorney General, Arkansas
1979-81 Governor of Arkansas
1981-83 Practiced law, Little Rock, Arkansas
1983-92 Governor of Arkansas

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
November 3, 1992
Popular: Clinton 44,908,233 (43%) George Bush 39,102,282 (38%) H. Ross Perot 19,721,433 (19%)
Electoral: Clinton 370 Bush 168
November 5, 1996
Popular: Clinton 47,402,357 (49%) Robert J. Dole 39,198,755 (41%) H. Ross Perot 8,085,402 (8%)
Electoral: Clinton 379 Dole 159

VICE PRESIDENT
Al Gore (1993-2001)

ADMINISTRATION
Task Force on National Health Care Reform, World Trade Center bombing, Branch Davidian compound standoff (1993); Brady Act, NAFTA, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (1994) Oklahoma City federal building bombing (1995); East Africa Embassy bombed, Starr Report, Two articles of impeachment (1998); Senate acquittal, NATO air strikes in Serbian (1999)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer

FIRST LADY
Hillary Diane Rodham (1993-2001)

“There is nothing wrong in America that can’t be fixed with what is right in America.”
First inaugural address, January 20, 1993

Portrait of William Clinton by Simmi Knox, 2001.