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Hillary Clinton
b. 1947
American politician and diplomat (born 1947)
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1947 October 26, 1947 →Biography
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and the first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the wife of Bill Clinton. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee in the 2016 presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party and the only woman to win the popular vote for U.S. president. Clinton lost the United States Electoral College vote to Republican Party nominee Donald Trump. She is the only first lady of the United States to have run for elected office.
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Hillary Clinton, American lawyer and politician, 67th United States Secretary of State and 44th First Lady of the United States
October 26 →Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis: Leeland Eisenberg entered the campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with a device suspected of being a bomb and held three people hostage for 5 hours.
November 30 →Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for president of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
July 26 →Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States, defeating Hillary Clinton, the first woman ever to receive a major party's nomination.
November 8 →Super Tuesday, dans la course aux investitures démocrate et républicaine de l’élection présidentielle américaine, Hillary Clinton et Donald Trump sont les grands vainqueurs.
March 1 →More from the Postwar
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