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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] Three months before his son was born, Blythe drowned following a car crash.
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.
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 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 ...
The presidency of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after taking office in 1841, was the shortest in American history. [9] Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945. He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. [10]
Twenty-one states have the distinction of being the birthplace of a president. One president's birth state is in dispute; North and South Carolina (British colonies at the time) both lay claim to Andrew Jackson, who was born in 1767 in the Waxhaw region along their common border. Jackson himself considered South Carolina his birth state.
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