Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was born to Hugh Ellsworth Rodham and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham on October 26, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois and was raised in a Methodist family in Park Ridge, Illinois.   She has two brothers, Hugh and Tony.   She attended Maine East High School, where she served as class president, was a member of student council, a member of the debate team, and a member of National Honor Society.   During her last year of high school she attended Maine South High School, and received the school’s first social science award.   In 1964, at the age of 16, Hillary campaigned for the republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
In 1965, Hillary Clinton enrolled at Wellesley College in Massachusetts where she became active in politics. She served as president of the Wellesley College Chapter of the College Republicans. After graduation she joined the Democratic Party. Clinton graduated in 1969 as class valedictorian with departmental honors in Political Science. She became the first student in the history of Wellesley College to deliver a commencement address.[7] In 1969, Rodham entered Yale Law School where she served on the Board of Editors of Yale Review of Law and Social Action and worked with underprivileged children at the Yale-New Haven Hospital. During the summer of 1970, she was awarded a grant to work at the Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During the summer of 1971 she worked on Senator Walter Mondale's subcommittee on migrant workers, researching migrant problems in housing, sanitation, health and education. For the summer of 1972, Clinton worked in the western states for Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern's campaign. During her second year in law school, she volunteered at the Yale Child Study Center, learning about new research on early childhood brain development. She also took on cases of child abuse at Yale-New Haven Hospital and worked at the city Legal Services, providing...