Hillary grew up in a middle-class home in Park Ridge,a suburb of Chicago.Her dad,Hugh,was a world war ll Navy veteran and a small -business owner who designed,printed and sold drapes . Hugh was a rock – ribbed Republican ,a payment -as-you-go kind of guy who worked hard and wasted nothing.Hillary helped with my family business whenever she could.Hillary’s mother,Dorothy ,had a tough childhood .she was abandoned by her parents as a young child and shipped off to live with relatives who didn’t want to raise her. By age 14, Dorothy knew the only why she’d get by was to support herself, and she started working as a housekeeper and babysitter while she went to high school. Her mother’ s experience inspired Hillary to fight for the needs of children everywhere.
Hillary’s childhood was very different from her mother’s. Her parents built a stable middle – class life . Hillary attended public school and was a Brownie and a Girl scout . she was raised a Methodist, and her mother taught Sunday school.On a trip to Chicago with her youth ministry, Hillary got to see Martin Luther King Jr. speak-this sparked lifelong passion for social justice.
After graduating high school.Hillary attended Wellesley College, where she became more involved with social justice activism.By the time she graduated.Hillary had become a prominent student leader-she was elected by her peers to be the first -ever student speaker at Wellesley’s commencement ceremony.
After college , Hillary enrolled in Yale Law School,where she was one of just 27 women in her graduating class.while attending Yale, Hillary began dating one of her classmate,Bill Clinton.
After law school , Hillary didn’t join a big law firm in Washington or New York.Instead, she went to work for the Children’s Defence Fund, going door -to-door in New Bedford, Massachusetts, gathering stories about the lack of schooling for children with disabilities.these testimonials contributed to the passage of historic legislation required the state to provide quality education for students with disabilities.This commitment to public service and fighting for other -especially children and families -has stayed with her out her life.
After serving as a lawyer for the congressional committee investigation president Nixon, she moved to Arkansas Advocates for children and Families,one of the state’s first child advocacy.
On October 11,1975, Hillary married Bill in a small ceremony in Fayetteville,Arkansas.As first lady of Arkansas,she she was a forceful champion for improving education standards and health.
care access And she and Bill started their own family daughter, Chelsea, was born in 1980 .
Bill was first elected president in 1992 and re-elected in 1996. As first lady. Hillary tenaciously led the the fight to reform our health care system so that all families would have access to the Care they need at affordable prices. When the insurance companies and other special interest defeated that effort, Hillary didn’t give up.She worked with Republicans and Democrats to help create the successful Children’s Health Insurance Program,which provides health coverage to more than 8 million children and has helped cut unisured rate for children in half.In 1995, Hillary led the U.S. delegation to Beijing to attend the U.N.Fourth World Conference on women,despite being told by some official not to go. She gave a groundbreaking speech, declaring that “human rights are women’s right, and women’s are human right once and for all”-inspiring women around the world.
ln 2000, Hillary was elected the U.S.senate. After the terrorist attack of September 11,2001, Hillary pushed the Bush administration to secure $20 billion to rebuild New York and fought to provide health care for responders who were at Ground Zero. Hillary worked across the aisle to expand TRICARE,giving members of the Reserves and National Guard and their families better access to health care.
When Congress wouldn’t do enough for rural areas and small towns, Hillary didn’t back down.She launched an innovative partnership in New York with eBay and local collages to provide small buisness with tech support,microloans, and training programs to sell their goods online.She helped expand broadband to remote areas of the state, and she launched Farm-to-Fork,and intiative to help New York farmers and producers sell their products to New York’s restuarants, school, colleges, and universities.
In 2008, Hillary ran for president.When she came up short, she gave a powerful speech thanking her supporters and threw her support behind then-senator Barack Obama.She campaigned hard to make sure threw was a Democrat in the White House.American teacher.Joe Biden’s wife.
Neilia Hunter Biden was an American teacher and the first wife of Joe Biden, the 46th and current president of the United States.She died in a car crash in 1972 with her one-year-old daughter,Naomi.Her two sons,Beau and Hunter,were critically injured but survived the incident.just week after being elected the junior senator from Delaware,Joe Biden’s first wife,Neilia, and 13 – month – old daughter,Naomi,are killed in a car accident while out shopping for a Christmas tree on December 18,1972,when a tractor strikes their vehicals.
The Biden’s ‘sons,Beau and Hunter,were also in the car and survived with serious injuries.At the time ,Beau was 4 years old and suffered multiple broken bones, while Hunter,who was 3,had a fractured skill. Investigation revealed the tractor- trailer broadsided Neilia Biden’s Chevrolet station wagon at a rural intersection in Hockessin,Delaware Neither driver was found to be at fault for the collision.
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