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October 26, 1947, marks her birth at the stroke of midnight 12 AM CST.
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In the 2016 U.S. presidential election, she won the popular vote by 2,868,686 votes but lost the electoral college to Donald J. Trump.
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She kept her maiden name until 1982, when she changed it to Hillary Rodham Clinton on the advice of her husband’s campaign staff during his run for Governor of Arkansas. In her memoir Living History, she wrote that some Arkansas voters were offended by her use of her maiden name. After announcing her second presidential run in 2015, she dropped Rodham from her preferred name.
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She used to be a Republican and volunteered for Barry Goldwater when younger. She became a Democrat at Wellesley and later met Bill Clinton at Yale University.
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A spicy food aficionado, she often snacks on jalapeños and carries hot sauce, saying it helps her immune system. She mentioned this in a 2016 interview on New York City’s 105.1 FM Breakfast Club, which became a minor controversy for seeming to pander to black voters, though she had been quoted as far back as 1995 carrying hot sauce.
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She loves art, especially sculpture.
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She was named Arkansas Mother of the Year in 1984.
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She has been portrayed on Saturday Night Live by Ana Gasteyer, Amy Poehler, Janeane Garofalo, Jan Hooks, and Kate McKinnon.
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She was the first US First Lady to seek and win a political office while still First Lady when elected to the US Senate from New York in 2000.
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Her 2003 memoir Living History is the fastest-selling non-fiction book ever.
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She wanted to be an astronaut until learning that NASA did not accept women in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Her first grandchild, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky, was born on September 26, 2014 to Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky. Her second, Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky, was born on June 18, 2016, and a third, Jasper, on July 22, 2019.
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She met her husband Bill Clinton when she smiled at him in the Yale University library.
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She is the first female U.S. Senator from the state of New York.
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She sought the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, winning 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. She suspended her campaign on June 7, 2008 and endorsed Barack Obama.
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Between 1992 and 2008, she appeared on 24 covers of Time magazine, a record unmatched by any other woman.
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Sir Elton John raised $2.5 million for her 2008 presidential campaign with a concert at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
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She gave birth to her daughter Chelsea Clinton on February 27, 1980.
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She was reelected as U.S. Senator from New York with 67% of the vote on November 7, 2006.
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Her favorite movie as a child was The Wizard of Oz 1939, and her adult favorite is Casablanca 1942.
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She shares the same birthday and birthplace Chicago as Pat Sajak, one year his junior.
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She is Honorary President of the Girl Scouts of America.
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She grew up in the suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois.
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For her presidential campaign in June 2007, she parodied the closing scene of the The Sopranos series finale, entering a diner followed by her husband and daughter.
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Her ancestry includes English, Welsh, smaller amounts of Scottish and French/French-Canadian, and remote Dutch and Swiss-French.
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She graduated from Wellesley College and Yale Law School.
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She was named Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983.
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She announced her intention to run for President of the United States on January 20, 2007 by forming an exploratory committee.
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She was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in April 2014.
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On June 7, 2016, she became the presumptive Democratic nominee, having won a majority of delegates against Bernie Sanders. She was formally nominated on July 26, 2016, becoming the first woman to be a major party’s presidential nominee.
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She was born to Hugh Ellsworth Rodham 1911-1993, an executive in the textile industry, and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham 1919-2011, a homemaker. She has two brothers, Hugh and Tony.
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She was raised in a United Methodist family.
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She is the daughter-in-law of Virginia Clinton Kelley.
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She received a $14 million advance for her memoir Hard Choices.
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She earned her Juris Doctor JD degree from Yale Law School in 1973.
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When she was a young girl, she was the president of Fabian’s fan club.
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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 2008, she received more verified votes than Barack Obama but fewer delegates, though the true popular vote is impossible to determine because Obama did not appear on the Michigan ballot. In 2016, she won the popular vote against Donald Trump but lost the electoral college.
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Celebrities supporting her 2008 presidential campaign included 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 O’Donnell, Sir Elton John, and Jerry Springer.
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She 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.
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She won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 1997 for the recording of her book It Takes A Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us.
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She is the sister-in-law of Roger Clinton.
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She ranked #22 in Celebrity Sleuth’s 25 Sexiest Women of 1997.
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Her youngest brother, Tony Rodham, died on June 7, 2019 at age 64.
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She was inducted into the Maine South High School Wall of Honor in Park Ridge, Illinois, in 2013 as part of the inaugural class.
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She became a grandmother to a third grandchild, Jasper, on July 22, 2019, when daughter Chelsea and husband Marc Mezvinsky welcomed a baby boy.
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She is a fan of the TV show Most Extreme Elimination Challenge 2003.
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The New York Times endorsed her in the 2016 US presidential election, both in the Democratic primary and the general election.
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She is the first Democrat that The Dallas Morning News, a typically conservative paper, endorsed for president in 75 years September 28, 2016.
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In December 1998, she became the very first First Lady to appear on the cover of Vogue magazine, wearing an Oscar de la Renta outfit and photographed by Annie Leibovitz.
