Hillary Rodham Clinton Has Served as secretary of state, serfrom New York, first lady of the United States, first lady of Arkansas, a practicing lawyer aprofessor, activist, and volunteer-but the first thing her friends and family will tell you is tha.she's never forgotten where she came from or who she's been fighting for.Hillary grew up in a middle-class home in Park Ridge, a suburb of Chicago. Her dad, Hugh, wasa World War il Navy veteran anda small-business owner who designed, printed, and solddrapes. Hugh was a rock-ribbed Republican, a pay-as-you-go kind of guy who worked hard andwasted nothing. Hillary helped with the family business whenever she could.Hillary's mother.,Dorothy, had a tough childhood. She was abandoned by her parents as a young child andshipped off to live with relatives who didn't want to raise her. By age 14, Dorothy knew the onlyway shed get by Was to sPPeotherrs exnerience inspired Hillary to fight for theherself, and she started working as a housekeeper andorshile she went tobabysitterneeds of children everywhere.Hillary's childhood was very different from her mother's. Her parents built a stable middle-classlife. Hillary attended public school and was a Brownie and a Gir Scout, She was raised aMethodist, 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 her lifelong passion for socialjustice.After graduating high school, Hillary attended Wellesley College, where she became moreinvolved with social justice activism. By the time she graduated, Hillary had become a prominentstudent leader--she was elected by her peers to be the first-ever student speaker at Wellesley'scommencement ceremony.After college, Hillary enrolled in Yale Law School, where she was one of just 27 women in hergraduating class. While attending Yale, Hillary began dating one of her classmates, Bill Clinton.After law school, Hillary didn't join a big law firm in Washington or New York. Instead, she wentto work for the Children's Defense Fund, going door-to-door in New Bedford, Massachusettsgathering stories about the lack of schooling for children with disabilities. These testimonialscontributed to the passage of historic legislation that required the state to provide qualityeducation for students with disabilities. This commitment to public service and fighting forothersespecially children and families -has stayed with her throughout her life.After serving as a lawyer for the congressional committee investigating President Nixon, shemoved to Arkansas where she taught law and ran legal clinics representing disenfranchisedpeople. She co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, one of the state's firstchild advocacy groups.2/ 224On October 11, 1975, Hillary married Bill in a small ceremony in Fayetteville, Arkansas. As firstlady of Arkansas, she was a forceful champion for improving educational standards and healthcare access. And she and Bill started their own family when their daughter, Chelsea, was bornin 1980.Bill was first elected president in 1992 and re-elected in 1996. As first lady, Hillary tenaciouslyled the fight to reform our health care system so that all families would have access to the carethey need at affordable prices. When the insurance companies and other special interestsdefeated that effort, Hillary didn't give up. She worked with Republicans and Democrats to helpcreate the successful Children's Health Insurance Program, which provides health coverage tomore than & million children and has helped cut the uninsured 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 officials not to go. She gave a groundbreaking speech, declaring that"human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights once and forall'-inspiring women around the world.In 2000, Hillary was elected to the U.S. Senate. After the terrorist attacks of September 11,2001, Hillary pushed the Bush administration to secure $20 billion to rebuild New York andfought to provide health care for responders who were at Ground Zero. Hillary worked acrossthe aisle to expand TRICARE, giving members of the Reserves and National Guard and theirfamilies better access to health careWhen 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 colleges to providesmall businesses 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, aninitiative to help New York farmers and producers sell their products to New York's restaurants,schools, colleges, and universities.In 2008, Hillary ran for president. When she came up short, she gave a powerful speechthanking her supporters and threw her support behind then-Senator Barack Obama. Shecampaigned hard to make sure there was a Democrat in the White House.[(10/15, 22:27] SKILL INDIA: Neilia Hunter BidenAmerican teacher Joe Biden's wifeNeilia Hunter Biden was an American teacher and the first wife of Joe Biden, the 46th andcurent president of the United States. She died in a car crash in 1972 with her one-year-olddaughter, Naomi. Her two sons, Beau and Hunter, were critically injured but survived theincident.Just weeks 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 vnt while out shopping for aChristmas tree on December 18, 1972, when a tractor-trailer strikes their vehicle.The Bidens' sons, Beau and Hunter, were also in the car and survived with serious injuries. Atthe time, Beau was 4 years old and suffered multiple broken bones, while Hunter, who was 3had a fractured skull. Investigations revealed the tractor-trailer broadsided Neilia Biden's