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William Jefferson Blythe Jr. (February 27, 1918 – May 17, 1946) was an American salesman of heavy equipment. He was the biological father of Bill Clinton , the 42nd president of the United States. [ 1 ]
Bill Clinton's father, William Jefferson Blythe Jr. (February 27, 1918 – May 17, 1946), was a traveling heavy equipment salesman who died in a car crash three months before Bill was born. [3] 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 ...
Clinton's birthplace home in Hope, Arkansas. Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. [4] He is the son of William Jefferson Blythe Jr., a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before his birth, and Virginia Dell Cassidy (later Virginia Kelley). [5]
William Jackson Blythe Jr. [1] (born August 15, 1935) [2] is an American politician who served in the Texas House of Representatives for both District 22-3 and its successor District 91 from 1971 to 1983.
She died just less than a year after her son became the 42nd president of the United States on January 20, 1993. She is buried alongside her first husband William Jefferson Blythe Jr. at Rose Hill Cemetery in Hope, Arkansas. Before her death, she was interviewed by Connie Chung and spoke about both of her sons. [2]
William (Bill, Billy) Blyth(e) may refer to: W. J. Blythe Jr. (born 1935), known as Bill, former member of the Texas House of Representatives; William Jefferson Blythe Jr. (1918–1946), biological father of Bill Clinton; Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III in 1946), 42nd President of the United States
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. [3] [4] [10] Roger Clinton and his family lived at the south end of Hope. [11]
Roger Clinton Jr. is the only child of car salesman Roger Clinton Sr. and nurse Virginia Dell Cassidy. [1] As a child, his elder half-brother Bill Clinton often had to protect him from Roger Sr., who was abusive and an alcoholic. [2] He became a musician and formed a rock band named "Dealer's Choice." [citation needed]