Hillary Clinton

Used to be a Republican and volunteered for Barry Goldwater when she was younger. She became a Democrat when she attended Wellesley and later on met Bill Clinton while they were attending Yale University.

Loves art, especially sculpture.

Gave birth to her daughter Chelsea Clinton on 27 February 1980.

Sister-in-law of Roger Clinton.

Honorary President of the Girl Scouts of America.

Raised in a United Methodist family.

Graduate of Wellesley College and Yale University Law School.

She kept her maiden name until 1982, when she changed her name to Hillary Rodham Clinton on the advice of her husbands campaign staff during his run for Governor of Arkansas. She wrote in her memoir "Living History" that, "I learned the hard way that some voters in Arkansas were seriously offended by the fact that I kept my maiden name." After announcing her second run for the presidency in 2015, her campaign confirmed to the Associated Press that she was dropping Rodham from her preferred name, and would henceforth be known as Hillary Clinton.

1984 Arkansas Mother of the Year.

She was the first US First Lady to seek and win a political office while still being First Lady when she was elected to the US Senate from New York in 2000.

Is the first female U.S. Senator from the state of New York.

Has been portrayed on "Saturday Night Live" by Ana Gasteyer , Amy Poehler , Janeane Garofalo , Jan Hooks , and Kate McKinnon.

Born at the stroke of midnight (12 AM CST).

Grew up in the suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois.

She ranked #22 in Celebrity Sleuth 25 Sexiest Women of 1997.

Wanted to be an astronaut until she learned that NASA did not accept women in the 1950s and 1960s.

Attended two high schools in Park Ridge, Illinois: Maine East High School, where a classmate was Steve Goodman , and Maine South High School, from which she graduated.

Daughter-in-law of Virginia Clinton Kelley.

Shares the same birthday (and was born in the same city) as Pat Sajak and is one year his junior.

Met her husband Bill Clinton , when she smiled at him in the Yale University library.

"Living History", her 2003 memoir of her life with President Bill Clinton , including his relationship with Monica Lewinsky , is the fastest selling non-fiction book ever.

Received the "Best Spoken Word Album" Grammy Award in 1997 for the recording of her book "It Takes A Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us".

Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983.

Was reelected as United States Senator from New York with 67% of the vote (7 November 2006).

Born to Hugh Ellsworth Rodham (1911-1993), an executive in the textile industry, and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham (born in 1919), a homemaker, she has two brothers, Hugh and Tony.

Announced her intentions to run for President of the United States on 20 January 2007 by forming a exploratory committee.

Is a fan of the TV show "Most Extreme Elimination Challenge" .

Celebrities supporting her 2008 presidential campaign include Steven Spielberg , Candice Bergen , Michael Douglas , Madonna , Reese Witherspoon , Melissa Etheridge , America Ferrera , Rob Reiner , Martha Stewart , John Grisham , Janet Jackson , Hugh Hefner , Elizabeth Taylor , Rosie ODonnell , Sir Elton John and Jerry Springer.

Pardodied the closing scene of "Made in America", the series finale of "The Sopranos" , for her presidential campaign, entering a diner followed by her husband and daughter (June 2007).

Between 1992 and 2008, the former First Lady appeared on 24 covers of Time magazine setting a record unmatched by any other woman.

Sir Elton John raised $2.5m for her 2008 presidential campaign with a concert at New Yorks Radio City Music Hall.

Sought the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, and ultimately won 23 contests and 48% of the popular vote. Her win in the New Hampshire primary made her the first woman to win a major party presidential primary. On June 7, 2008, she suspended her run for president and endorsed the presumptive nominee, Senator Barack Obama.

When she was a young girl, was the president of Fabian s fan club.

One of Time Magazines 100 Most Influential People in the World. [April 2014].

Her first grandchild, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky, was born on September 26, 2014 to Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky. Her second grandchild, Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky, was born on June 18, 2016.

Said that The Wizard of Oz was her favorite movie as a child, and that Casablanca is her adult favorite movie.

She is a spicy food aficionado, often snacks on jalapeos, and carries hot sauce with her, as she says it helps her immune system. She mentioned this during an interview on New York Citys 105.1 FM the Breakfast Club in 2016 and it became a minor controversy as the comment was accused of being pandering to black voters, as carrying hot sauce had been recently popularized by a lyric in the Beyonc song "Formation", though Clinton has been quoted as far back as 1995 stating she carries hot sauce with her.

On June 7, 2016 she became the presumptive nominee for president of the Democratic Party, having won the majority of delegates against her primary opponent Bernie Sanders. She was formally nominated at the Democratic National Convention on July 26, 2016, becoming the first woman to be the nominee of a major party for president.

The New York Times endorsed her in the 2016 US presidential election, both in the Democratic primary and again for the general election.

Clinton is the first Democrat The Dallas Morning News, a typically conservative paper, endorsed for president in 75 years. [Sept 28, 2016].

Lost the 2016 U.S. presidential election to Donald J. Trump, as she lost the electoral college, though she won the popular vote by 2.9 million.

In both her 2008 primary and 2016 general election presidential runs she won the popular vote while losing the contests, as neither were decided by direct plurality voting. In the 2008 Democratic primaries, she received more verified votes than Barack Obama while Obama received more delegates, though the true popular vote winner is impossible to determine as Obama did not appear on the Michigan ballot while Clinton did, and numerous states held caucuses that did not release vote counts. In the 2016 presidential election, she won the popular vote against Donald Trump but lost the electoral college.

Was paid $14 million advance for her memoir "Hard Choices.".

Earned her Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Yale Law School [1973].

Her ancestry is English, Welsh, smaller amounts of Scottish and French/French-Canadian, and remote Dutch and Swiss-French.

[Beijing Conference 1995] Tragically, women are most often the ones,whose human rights are violated. Even in the late 20th century, the,rape of women continues to be used as an instrument of armed conflict.

When women are excluded from the political process, they become even,more vulnerable to abuse.

These abuses have continued because, for too long, the history of women,has been a history of silence. Even today, there are those who are,trying to silence our words.

[on personal power] Women are always being tested . . . but ultimately,each of us has to define who were are individually and then do the very,best job we can to grow into that.

[on the murder of the U. S. Ambassador to Libya] He risked his life to,stop a tyrant, then gave his life trying to help build a better Libya.

The world needs more Chris Stevenses.

Anyone who says that racial discrimination is not a problem in American,elections must not be paying attention.

I think the world is so complicated, the fewer corners that you can,have, the better.

[advice to Yale graduates, at Commencement 2001] The most important,thing I have to say to you today is that hair matters. Pay attention to,your hair, because everyone else will.

Study after study has documented that when women have the opportunity to,start businesses , own land, and receive credit, entire economies,expand.

The current rules for our economy reward some work - like financial,trading - much more than other work, like actually building and selling,things.

[on her presumptive win to head the Democrat ticket in the 2016,election] Barriers can come down. Justice and equality can win. This,campaign is making sure there are no ceilings, no limits on any of us.

This is our moment to come together.

[on Donald Trump] He says he has foreign policy experience because he,ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia.

My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open markets and open,borders.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

With respect to Iraq, I did favour the continuity of American forces to work with the new Maliki government. They had enormous needs for intelligence, for training on everything from airplanes to more sophisticated ground equipment and the like.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.

I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child.

One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. We need to overturn that terrible Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, and then reform our whole campaign finance system.

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.

I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

I would be delighted if the United States could have a positive relationship with Russia, and I would be thrilled if the Russian people, who are so capable, had a normal country that they could chart a different future.

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

I am 100% in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver.

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval.

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

American politics is always an open competition.

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

Remember, the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, have a working relationship with the Palestinian Authority security forces, which have been incredibly professional.

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

I believe climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs.

It became clear to me that simply caring is not enough. To drive real progress, you have to change both hearts and laws. You need both understanding and action.

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all nations of origin, all languages, all religions, all races, can make a home. America was built by immigrants.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

My wish for the new millennium is for all children. . . to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before. .