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William Jefferson Blythe Jr. was one of nine children born to William Jefferson Blythe Sr. (1884–1935), a farmer in Sherman, Texas, and Lou Birchie Ayers (1893–1946). Blythe Sr. was of English and Scottish descent, with a family tree in North America since the days of the thirteen colonies. [2] Blythe was married five times. [3]
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe; born August 19, 1946) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979 and as the governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992.
Blythe was born as one of nine children to William Jefferson Blythe Sr. (1884–1935), a poor farmer in Sherman, Texas, and his wife, the former Lou Birchie Ayers (1893–1946). He was of English and Scotch-Irish descent, with family lines in North America since the days of the Thirteen Colonies. [4] [5] [6] Blythe was married four times.
Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, discussed his plan for health care reform in a speech delivered to a joint session of the 103rd United States Congress on September 22, 1993, at 9:00 PM (EDT).
Audience with Pope John Paul II. United Kingdom: Cambridge, London, Portsmouth: June 4–5: Visited U.S. Military Cemetery. Met with Prime Minister John Major. Attended state dinner with Queen Elizabeth II and heads of state and government of Canada, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Belgium. Attended the ...
During her training in Shreveport, she met her first husband, William Jefferson Blythe Jr., whom she married in a civil ceremony in 1943, just before he shipped out for World War II military duty. Upon completion of her training, she returned to Hope, Arkansas.
Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III in Hope, Arkansas, on Aug. 19, 1946. His father died in a car accident before he was born, and when his mother married Roger Clinton Sr. when he was 4 ...
In 1950, he married Virginia Cassidy Blythe, mother of the future president, whose first husband William Jefferson Blythe Jr. had died in a car crash in 1946, three months before the birth of their son Bill. [2] [3] [9] Roger Clinton and his family lived at the south end of Hope. [10]