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Given name William Jefferson Blythe
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served on staff of senator J. William Fulbright
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He graduated from Georgetown University
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Rhodes scholar at Oxford University in England
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Graduated from Yale Law School; taught at University of Arkansas Law School
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Defeated in race for House of Representatives ,Third District Arkansas, by John Paul Hammerschmidt
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Directed Jinny Carter's presidential campaign in Arkansas; elected Arkansas attorney general.
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elected governor of Arkansas for two year term.
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defeated by Frank White for govern ship; practiced law in Little Rock.
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elected governor of Arkansas for two year term.
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won passage of controversial education reform act involving teacher testing and increasing sales taxes.
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re-elected governor of Arkansas for newly established four-year term
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Chair national Governors Association
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re-elected governor of Arkansas; made speech nomination Michael Dukakis for president at Democratic National convention in July 1988 in Atlanta
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nominated president at democratic national convention in New York
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elected president of the United States
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he was in term of office
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Six people are killed and more than a thousand suffer injuries after a bomb planted under the World Trade Center in New York City explodes.
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The Senate confirms Janet Reno as US Attorney General, the first woman to serve in the position
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Vince Foster, deputy counsel to the President, is found dead in a Northern Virginia park
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President Clinton signs into law the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act that includes provisions providing for the hiring of 100,000 more policemen.
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In mid-term congressional elections, the Republican Party wins control of both houses of Congress for the first time in more than 40 years.
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The United States extended full diplomatic recognition of Vietnam, twenty-two years after the United States withdrew military forces from that country.
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During a tour of Europe, President Clinton urges the continuation of peace efforts in Northern Ireland.
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President Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress, led by Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA), engage in a political death struggle over how to balance the budget by 2002.
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President Clinton vetoes a bill that would have outlawed certain types of late-term abortions
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President Clinton signs a health care reform bill that he expects to expand coverage for many Americans.
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President Clinton, with 49 percent of the vote, defeats Senator Bob Dole (R-KS), with 41 percent of the vote, for the presidency. Clinton becomes the first Democratic President since Franklin Roosevelt to win reelection to a second term.
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President Clinton leaves on a six-country, 12-day tour of Africa
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Bill Clinton's presidency ended on January 20, 2001.
