Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (English: Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, October 26, 1947 -) is an American Democratic politician, lawyer, and writer. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Wellesley College and Yale Law School. She is currently the chancellor of Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, a professor at Columbia University, and the honorary founding chairman of the Institute for Women, Peace, and Security at Georgetown University. Served as U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Senator and First Lady of the United States. Her husband is former U.S. President Bill Clinton, and she has served as the first lady of Arkansas and the United States along with her husband's career changes. In 2001, he was elected as a U.S. Senator from New York State. In 2008, he participated in the Democratic presidential primary for the first time. Although he led Illinois U.S. Senator Barack Obama in the popular vote, he ultimately lost to Obama in the party delegate vote. After Obama was elected president, she was appointed as the third female Secretary of State in the history of the United States. She is also the first and only First Lady of the United States to serve as a cabinet minister. In 2016, she once again participated in the Democratic presidential primary and won, becoming the first female presidential candidate of a major political party in the history of the United States. At the end of the same year, she led Republican opponent Donald Trump by nearly 2.87 million popular votes in the presidential election, but Trump held more than half of the electoral votes and she lost the election. On March 5, 2019, Hillary Clinton stated in an interview with News12 that she would not run for the 2020 US presidential election. Since 2014, the Hillary Rodham Clinton Awards have been established in her name and are awarded annually at Georgetown University to recognize outstanding women who promote women's rights and contribute to world security and peace.