Bill Clinton (1946– ) was the forty-second president of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. Clinton was born and raised in Arkansas. He attended Georgetown University and earned a law degree from Yale, where he met his wife, Hillary Rodham. In 1978 he was elected governor of Arkansas after serving as the state’s attorney general. He was governor until 1981 and then again from 1983 to 1992. In 1992, Clinton was chosen as the Democratic nominee for president. With Al Gore as his running mate, Clinton defeated incumbent Republican...