The Clinton Family is a prominent American political family associated with Bill Clinton, 42nd US President (1993-2001), and his wife Hillary Clinton, 67th United States Secretary of State (2009- 13), Senator from New York (2001-09) and First Lady of the United States (1993-2001). Their closest relative is the First Family of the United States from 1993 to 2001. In 2016, Hillary Clinton became the first female female president of a major political party in US history. The Clintons (Bill and Hillary) are the first married couple each of which was nominated as president. He was defeated in the election by businessman Donald Trump.
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Parentage
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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 accident three months before Bill was born. Blythe was born as one of nine children William Jefferson Blythe Sr (1884-1935), a poor peasant in Sherman, Texas, and his wife, former Lou Birchie Ayers (1893-1946). He is of British and Scottish descent, with a family line in North America since the thirteenth time of the colony.
Blythe married four times. She married for the first time in December 1935, and the bride was Virginia Adele Gash; they were divorced thirteen months later. Although no child is born to the couple during their marriage, they then have a son together. After the divorce, Virginia moved to California and married first with a man named Coffelt, then a man named Charles Ritzenthaler. However, he and Blythe remained friends, and he occasionally visited him. A son was conceived during this visit, and Henry Leon Blythe was born in Sherman, Texas, on June 17, 1938, about eighteen months after his parents divorced. Henry's parents lost contact with each other when he was a baby, after his father briefly married and divorced his mother's sister, and he never knew his father's father or his father's siblings. Later, Henry Leon Blythe takes the name "Henry Leon Ritzenthaler" in honor of the stepfather. He runs several small businesses in Paradise, Calif., Including the cleanliness business, and died in 2009. He was unaware of his relationship with the future president until the 1992 presidential campaign, when the Washington Post investigation, based on birth registration records, revealed the details of Bill Clinton's family. Ritzenthaler met his half-brother for the first time around that time, and the physical resemblance between them was revealed.
Blythe's second marriage took place in December 1940 when, almost four years after his divorce with Virginia Adele Gash, Blythe married his sister Minnie Faye Gash. This marriage was canceled just four months later, in April 1941, and no children. Barely a few days after the cancellation, on May 3, 1941, Blythe remarried. His third wife is Wanetta Ellen Alexander from Kansas City, Missouri. Wanetta gave birth to Blythe's daughter on May 11, 1941, exactly eight days after their marriage. She had been pregnant with Blythe's child even before she married Minnie Faye Gash in December 1940. Her daughter who was born from Wanetta and Blythe was Sharon Lee Blythe Pettijohn, who was still alive in 2016. Blythe and Wanetta were officially divorced three years later, on the moon April 1944. They lost touch immediately after that; Wanetta, who eventually settled in Tucson, Arizona, had no inkling of Blythee's history until the 1992 presidential campaign and the Washington Post story. After seeing old photographs of Bill Clinton's father passing by on TV, Wanetta "swears in the pile of the Bible... that it was the man she married" said his son-in-law Bob Pettijohn, Sharon Lee Blythe Pettijohn Husband.
Divorce Blythee of Wanetta Alexander was granted by the court in April 1944. Seven months before that, in September 1943, Blythe had "married" Virginia Dell Cassidy from Bodcaw, Arkansas. Blythe and Cassidy remained married until his death in May 1946, which occurred in a car crash. On August 19, 1946, three months after Blythee's death, Cassidy gave birth to their only child, the future of Bill Clinton. Cassidy had no knowledge of Blythe's previous marriage until several decades later.
Mother's family
Bill Clinton's mother, Virginia Dell Cassidy (later Virginia Dell Blythe Clinton Dwire Kelley), was born in Bodcaw, Arkansas on June 6, 1923. He was the only child of James Eldridge Cassidy (1898-1957), a salesman, by his wife Edith Grisham Cassidy (1901-1968), an anesthesiologist. Bill Clinton's father, William J. Blythe, was his first husband, and he married him in September 1943, when he was 20 years old and he was 33 years old. On their wedding day, Blythe is still legally married to his third wife, Wanetta; the divorce was only completed in April of the following year. However, Cassidy probably did not know this situation at the time, and certainly did not know about Blythe's first two marriages until the decade after his death. After Blythe died, he moved back with his parents, gave birth to a son three months later, and named him William Jefferson Blythe III in honor of his paternal grandfather. This is the future of Bill Clinton.
In 1950, four years after Blythe's death, a young widow married to car salesman Roger Clinton Sr. (July 23, 1908 - November 8, 1967). Roger was born in Yell County, Arkansas, in July 1908 to Allen W. Clinton (August 26, 1880 - June 14, 1965) and Eula Cornwell Clinton (May 29, 1882 - October 10, 1975). The marriage resulted in one child, actor and musician Roger Clinton Jr., born in 1956 and was the only brother of Bill Clinton who grew up with him and had close relationships with him. In 1962, Roger and Virginia Clinton suffered a crisis in their marriage; they divorced and then married again in succession that year. At this time, 16-year-old William Jefferson Blythe III officially adopted his stepfather's family name as his family name and took the name of William Jefferson Clinton. Roger Clinton died in 1967 after seventeen years of marriage.
On January 3, 1969, just one year after the death of Roger Clinton, his widow married for the third time. His bride Jeff Dwire (June 6, 1923 - August 1974), the same age as him, and had three daughters by a previous marriage. Having served in the military, he worked as a carpenter, hairdresser, judo teacher and soccer coach, and has run a series of small businesses, including building homes, dealing with oil well equipment and selling financial securities. What worries the Virginia family and friends is the fact that he has served nine months in prison in 1962 for stock fraud. However, Bill Clinton supports new people in his mother's life; he served as the Best Man and also played and sang at the wedding reception. The marriage, which did not produce children, lasted until Dwire died in August 1974 of complications arising from diabetes.
In January 1982, Virginia Dwire married for the fourth and last time to Richard Kelley. This marriage, which did not produce children, lasted until Virginia's death from breast cancer on January 6, 1994. In later life, Virginia insisted that all official documents refer to him by his full name and election, "Virginia Dell Blythe Clinton Dwire Kelley."
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Chelsea Clinton Family
Bill and Hillary Clinton's son, Chelsea Victoria Clinton was born on February 27, 1980, in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, while his father was the Governor of Arkansas. On July 31, 2010, Clinton and investment banker Marc Mezvinsky were married in an interfaith ceremony in Rhinebeck, New York. Mezvinsky (born December 15, 1977) is the son of former Congressman Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky and Edward Mezvinsky, and was raised in the Conservative Jewish tradition. Clintons and Mezvinskys were senior friends in the 1990s and their children met at the End of Weekend retreat in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. They were first reported to be a couple in 2005, and got engaged during the Thanksgiving weekend in 2009. After their marriage, the couple stayed for three years in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of New York City, then bought condos in Manhattan's NoMad District for $ 10, 5 million. Clinton announced in April 2014 that they were expecting their first child. Their daughter, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky, was born in September 2014, and their son Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky, born in June 2016. Shortly after Aidan was born, the family moved to the nearby Flatiron District. Chelsea Clinton works as an NBC reporter and currently works with the Clinton Foundation.
Pets
While living in the White House, the Clintons had two pets: a cat named Socks and a dog named Buddy. Socks, born around 1989, was adopted by Clintons in 1991. The cat was left under the care of Bill Clinton's secretary, Betty Currie, who stayed with him until Socks' death on February 20, 2009, which was euthanized due to cancer of the jaw. Buddy, a Labrador Retriever who was born on August 7, 1997, was acquired by Clintons on December 5, 1997. Buddy was named for Henry's old uncle Henry Oren Grisham, dubbed "Buddy". The Clintons continued Buddy after they left the White House in January 2001 but the dog was hit by a car on January 2, 2002, and died. Both pets reportedly did not get along. Clinton adopted a new dog in 2005, which he named Seamus.
Office held
Bill Clinton
- Attorney General Arkansas (January 1977 - January 1979)
- Governor of Arkansas (January 1979 - January 1981; January 1983 - December 1992)
- President of the United States (January 1993 - January 2001)
Hillary Clinton
- First Lady of Arkansas (January 1979 - January 1981; January 1983 - December 1992)
- First Lady of the United States (January 1993 - January 2001)
- US Senator from New York (January 2001 - January 2009)
- United States Secretary of State (January 2009 - February 2013)
Clinton is the third Secretary of State and the first former First Lady to hold political office. In addition, he became runner-up for Democratic president for president in 2008 and Democratic candidate in 2016.
See also
- Clinton Family Portrait
- List of Presidents of the United States
- List of U.S. political families
- Political family in the world
References
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