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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Hillary Clinton
| image = Hillary Clinton official Secretary of State portrait crop.jpg
| caption = Official portrai, 2009
| office = 11th [[List of chancellors of the Queen's University, Belfast|Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast]]
| president = [[Ian Greer]]
| term_start = January 2, 2020
| term_end =
| predecessor = [[Thomas J. Moran (businessman)|Thomas J. Moran]]
| successor =
| order1 = 67th
| office1 = United States Secretary of State
| president1 = [[Barack Obama]]
| deputy1 = {{plainlist|
* [[John Negroponte]]
* [[James Steinberg]]
* [[William Joseph Burns]]
}}
| term_start1 = January 21, 2009
| term_end1 = February 1, 2013
| predecessor1 = [[Condoleezza Rice]]
| successor1 = [[John Kerry]]
| jr/sr2 = United States Senator
| state2 = [[New York (state)|New York]]
| term_start2 = January 3, 2001
| term_end2 = January 21, 2009
| predecessor2 = [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]]
| successor2 = [[Kirsten Gillibrand]]
| term_label3 = In role
| office3 = [[First Lady of the United States]]
| president3 = [[Bill Clinton]]
| term_start3 = January 20, 1993
| term_end3 = January 20, 2001
| predecessor3 = [[Barbara Bush]]
| successor3 = [[Laura Bush]]
| office4 = First Lady of Arkansas
| governor4 = Bill Clinton
| term_label4 = In role
| term_start4 = January 11, 1983
| term_end4 = December 12, 1992
| predecessor4 = [[Gay Daniels White]]
| successor4 = Betty Tucker
| governor5 = Bill Clinton
| term_label5 = In role
| term_start5 = January 9, 1979
| term_end5 = January 19, 1981
| predecessor5 = Barbara Pryor
| successor5 = Gay Daniels White
| birth_name = Hillary Diane Rodham
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|10|26}}
| birth_place = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], U.S.
| residence = [[Chappaqua, New York]], U.S.<br />[[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] (1968–present)
| otherparty = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] (before 1968)
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Bill Clinton]]|October 11, 1975}}
| children = [[Chelsea Clinton]]
| parents = {{plainlist|
* [[Hugh Rodham (born 1911)|Hugh Rodham]]
* [[Dorothy Howell Rodham|Dorothy Howell]]
}}
| education = [[Wellesley College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[Yale University]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])
| net_worth = US$45 million (October 2015)<ref name="Forbes">{{cite web |title=The Mystery of Hillary's Missing Millions |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2015/09/29/the-mystery-of-hillarys-missing-millions/ |website=Forbes |access-date=August 11, 2017}}</ref>
| signature = Hillary Rodham Clinton Signature.svg
| website = {{official website|https://www.hillaryclinton.com}}
}}
'''Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton''' (born October 26, 1947) is an [[United States|American]] [[politician]]. She was the [[List of Secretaries of State of the United States|67th]] [[United States Secretary of State]] from 2009 to 2013. Clinton was the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party's]] nominee for [[President of the United States]] in the [[United States presidential election, 2016|2016 election]]. She is a former [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]], [[First Lady of the United States]] and First Lady of [[Arkansas]].

From 2009 to 2013, she was the 67th Secretary of State, serving under President [[Barack Obama]]. Before that, she was the junior United States Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009. She is married to former [[President of the United States]] [[Bill Clinton]] in 1975. When her husband was president, she had the title of First Lady of the United States. She was a candidate in the [[United States presidential election, 2008|2008 election of a new President]]. She is a member of the [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic Party]].

Hillary Clinton was the first former First Lady to be elected to the U.S. Senate and to hold a federal cabinet-level position.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/20/us/hillary-clinton---fast-facts/|title=Hillary Clinton Fast Facts|date=20 December 2012|publisher=[[CNN]]|access-date=30 July 2013}}</ref> She ran for re-election to the Senate in 2006, which she won, and was considered by many in the media and politics as having a good chance to win in the race for the [[Democratic Party's US presidential nomination in 2008]], but she lost to [[Barack Obama]].

In April 2015, Clinton announced that she would be running for president once again for the [[2016 United States presidential election]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/us/politics/hillary-clinton-2016-presidential-campaign.html |title=Hillary Clinton Announces 2016 Presidential Bid |author=Chozick, Amy |work=The New York Times |date=April 12, 2015}}</ref> During the [[Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016|Democratic presidential primaries]], Clinton faced challenges from [[United States senator]] from [[Vermont]] [[Bernie Sanders]]. On June 6, 2016, Clinton reached the number of delegates to become the presumptive Democratic Party nominee.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/06/politics/hillary-clinton-nomination-2016/|title=Hillary Clinton clinches Democratic presidential nomination|publisher=[[CNN]]|access-date=June 7, 2016|date=June 6, 2016|author=Stephen Collnson}}</ref> She lost the election to [[Donald Trump]] on November 8, 2016.

==Early life and education==
Hillary Diane Rodham was born at Edgewater Medical Center in [[Chicago]]. She was raised in [[Park Ridge, Illinois|Park Ridge]], a suburb located {{convert|15|mi}} northwest of downtown Chicago. Her parents were Hugh E. Rodham and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham. She is of Welsh, English, French and French Canadian ancestry.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanancestors.org/ancestry-of-senator-hillary-rodham-clinton/|title=Notes on the Ancestry of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton|author=Roberts, Gary Boyd|publisher=New England Historic Genealogical Society|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203151445/http://www.americanancestors.org/ancestry-of-senator-hillary-rodham-clinton/|archive-date=3 December 2010|access-date=January 11, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Bernstein|2007|pp=17–18}}</ref> Hillary grew up with two younger brothers, [[Hugh Rodham (born 1950)|Hugh]] and [[Tony Rodham|Tony]].

She studied at Maine East High School and Maine South High School. She finished high school in 1965, and enrolled at [[Wellesley College]] in [[Massachusetts]].

In 1969, Rodham entered Yale Law School. She received a [[Juris Doctor]] (J.D.) degree from Yale in 1973. Then, she began a year of post-graduate study on children and medicine at the [[Yale Child Study Center]].

== First Lady of the United States (1993-2001) ==
[[File:Bill-hillary-inside.png|thumb|left|200px|Hillary and [[Bill Clinton]] at the [[White House]] in 1993]]
When she was First Lady, she tried to change the [[health care]] system. Some people didn't like it when the planning meetings were kept secret away from the public. In the end, too many people did not want the changes that she wanted.

Another major event during the time she was First Lady was when the public found out in 1998 that Bill Clinton had a sexual relationship with [[Monica Lewinsky]] in the mid 1990s. There was stress in the marriage partly because Bill had to go to trial (impeachment) because he was accused of lying to the court (during a deposition).

== Senate (2001-2009) ==
When she decided that she wanted to be senator, she chose New York even though she never lived there. Some accused her of "[[carpetbagging]]" because of this. She went on to win the election and won a second term in 2006.

When the [[2003 invasion of Iraq|war between the United States-led coalition and Iraq]] was about to start, she voted in favor of the war, which, as of 2015, she had said she regrets doing.

== 2008 presidential campaign ==
[[File:2008 Democratic Primaries Delegate Vote.png|left|thumb|State-by-state popular votes in the Democratic primaries and caucuses, shaded by percentage won: Obama in purple, Clinton in green. (Popular vote winners and delegate winners differed in New Hampshire, Nevada, Missouri, Texas and Guam.)]]
Hillary Clinton had raised more money than anybody else in the 2008 Presidential campaign, but later had big money problems for her campaign by May 7, 2008. She lost the party nomination to [[Barack Obama]], but she campaigned for Obama after this.
== United States Secretary of State (2009-2013) ==
[[File:Hillary Clinton sworn in as SecState 1-21-09 clinton-SIC-1.21.09 600 1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Clinton being sworn in as [[United States Secretary of State]], January 2009]]
In mid-November 2008, Obama and Clinton talked about whether she could be the next [[United States Secretary of State|U.S. Secretary of State]] in his presidency.<ref>{{cite news | author=Holland, Steve | url=https://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USTRE4AD04820081114 | title=Obama, Clinton discussed secretary of state job | work=[[Reuters]] | date=2008-11-15 | access-date=2008-11-18}}</ref> On November 21, there were reports that said Hillary Clinton had accepted his offer.<ref name="npr112108">{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97327730 |title=Obama Set On Key Cabinet Nominees |publisher=[[NPR]] |date=2008-11-21 |access-date=2008-11-21}}</ref>

During her term as Secretary of State, Clinton used her position to make [[women's rights]] and [[human rights]] a focus of U.S. initiatives. She became one of the most traveled secretaries of state in American history. She promoted the use of [[social media]] to convey the country's positions. She also led U.S. diplomatic efforts in responding to the [[Arab Spring]] and military intervention in [[2011 Libyan civil war|Libya]].

Clinton did not want to serve a second term as secretary. Once [[Barack Obama]] won his [[United States presidential election, 2012|re-election]], he announced that [[John Kerry]] would succeed Clinton as secretary. Clinton left office on February 1, 2013.

== 2016 presidential campaign ==
{{main|Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016}}
In 2016, Clinton became the first woman in the [[History of the United States]] to be a major party presidential candidate.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.biography.com/people/hillary-clinton-9251306 |title=Hillary Clinton Biography |website=Bio |publisher=A&E Television Networks, LLC |access-date=10 November 2016}}</ref> Clinton did not want to run for president in 2016, but after much of a majority support from the Democratic party, on April 12, 2015, speculation ended as Clinton formally announced her candidacy via email and the release of a video saying, "Everyday Americans need a champion. And I want to be that champion." In the polls, Clinton maintained her lead for the nomination although she faced several challenges from Senator [[Bernie Sanders]]. A [[NBC]]/[[Wall Street Journal]] poll conducted in May found Clinton and presumptive Republican nominee [[Donald Trump]] in a tie.<ref name="NBC News1">{{cite web | url=http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/clinton-s-lead-over-trump-shrinks-3-points-new-nbc-n577726 | title=Meet the Press | publisher=NBC | date=May 23, 2016 | access-date=23 May 2016 | author=Murray, Mark}}</ref> Clinton and Trump were the least popular likely candidates in the poll's history.<ref name="NBC News2">{{cite web | url=http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/first-read-clinton-s-challenge-winning-over-sanders-voters-n578591 | title=First Read: Clinton's Challenge Is Winning Over Sanders Voters | publisher=NBC | date=23 May 2016 | access-date=23 May 2016 |author1=Dann, Carrie |author2=Todd, Chuck |author3=Murray, Mark }}</ref> This made it difficult for her campaign.<ref name="NBC News2"/>

Clinton became the presumptive nominee on June 6, 2016.

Clinton lost the [[United States presidential election, 2016|general election]] to [[Donald Trump]] winning 227 of the [[electoral college]] to Trump's 304. Clinton won the popular vote however 48% to Trump's 46%.

==After the 2016 election==
In April 2017, Clinton said that she will not seek public office again.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-clinton-20170406-story.html|title=Hillary Clinton says she won't run for public office again|last=Demick|first=Barbara|date=2017-04-06|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2017-04-07|issn=0458-3035}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
While working as a faculty member at the Law School of the [[University of Arkansas]], she married Bill Clinton on October 11, 1975. He was also working as a faculty member at the same university. Both knew each other and were classmates at the [[Yale Law School]]. Their only child is daughter [[Chelsea Clinton]], born on February 27, 1980.

==References==
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==Other websites==
{{commonscat|Hillary Rodham Clinton}}
* [https://www.hillaryclinton.com/ Campaign website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130212060500/http://www.state.gov/secretary/20092013clinton/index.htm Former website of Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton]
* [https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/first-ladies/hillaryclinton First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton website]

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