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Blythe and Virginia remained married until his death in a car crash on May 17, 1946. On August 19, 1946, three months after Blythe's death, Virginia gave birth to their only child, William Jefferson Blythe III. Bill, as a teen, took his stepfather's surname and became known as Bill Clinton, the future 42nd president of the United States.
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]
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 ...
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]
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]
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.
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
As Governor, Clinton supported the death penalty. [2] According to some sources, Clinton had previously been an opponent of the death penalty in his early years, but changed his position by the time that he was governor. [23] [24] In 1979, Clinton commuted the death sentence of convicted murderer James L. Surridge. Surridge later committed ...