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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.
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 ...
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer 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.
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 ...
It appears that William Blythe did not return from Europe until 1946 and therefore is unlikely to have been the real father of President Bill Clinton. William Blythe was killed in a car accident three months before the future president was born. Many people in Hope claim that his biological father was a doctor in town and invoke their resemblances.
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]
During his time as governor in the 1980s, Arkansas was the center of a drug smuggling operation through Mena Airport. CIA agent Barry Seal allegedly imported three to five billion dollars worth of cocaine through the airport, and the operation was linked to the Iran-Contra affair. [7]