Hillary Clinton was born on October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois, going on to earn her law degree from Yale University. She married fellow law school graduate Bill Clinton in 1975. She later served as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, and then as a U.S. senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, becoming the first American first lady to ever win a public office seat. In early 2007, Clinton announced her plans to run for the U.S. Presidency. During the 2008 Democratic primaries, she conceded the nomination when it became apparent that Barack Obama held a majority of the delegate vote. After winning the national election, Obama appointed Clinton the 67th U.S. Secretary of State. She was sworn in as part of his cabinet in January 2009 and served until 2013. In the spring of 2015, she announced her plans to run again for the U.S. Presidency. In 2016, she became the first woman in U.S. history to become the presidential nominee of a major political party. After a polarizing campaign against GOP candidate Donald Trump, Clinton was defeated in the general election that November.
Hillary and Bill Clinton have one daughter, Chelsea Victoria.
Among the many books Clinton has penned, some of her more notable ones include: It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us (1996), Living History (2003), Hard Choices (2014), and What Happened (2017).
