Bill Clinton Biography and Works.

Born on August 19, 1946, William Jefferson ‘Bill’ Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

Bill Clinton was the third-youngest President. He took office as the President at the end of the Cold War. Bill Clinton was the first President of the baby boomer generation. Often described as a New Democrat, many of his policies have been attributed to a centrist, Third Way philosophy of governance.

Clinton became both a student leader and a skilled musician. An alumnus of Georgetown University, he earned a Rhodes scholarship to attend the University of Oxford. He is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Hillary Clinton was the Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009 and has been serving as the United States Secretary of State since 2009. Both Clintons received law degrees from Yale Law School, where they met and began dating.

Clinton was elected as the President in 1992, defeating incumbent President George HW Bush. As President, Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in the history of America. He implemented Don’t ask, don’t tell, a controversial intermediate step to full gay military integration.

After a failed health care reform attempt, Republicans won control of Congress in 1994, for the first time in forty years. Two years later, the re-elected Clinton became the first member of the Democratic Party since Franklin D Roosevelt to win a second full term as President.

Trivia

As Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton overhauled the State’s education system and served as Chair of the National Governors Association.