- Born at the stroke of midnight (12 AM CST).
- Lost the 2016 U.S. presidential election to Donald J. Trump, as she lost the electoral college, though she won the popular vote by 2,868,686 votes.
- Used to be a Republican and volunteered for Barry Goldwater when she was younger. She became a Democrat when she attended Wellesley and later on met Bill Clinton while they were attending Yale University.
- She kept her maiden name until 1982, when she changed her name to Hillary Rodham Clinton on the advice of her husband's campaign staff during his run for Governor of Arkansas. She wrote in her memoir "Living History" that, "I learned the hard way that some voters in Arkansas were seriously offended by the fact that I kept my maiden name." After announcing her second run for the presidency in 2015, her campaign confirmed to the Associated Press that she was dropping Rodham from her preferred name, and would henceforth be known as Hillary Clinton.
- Has been portrayed on Saturday Night Live (1975) by Ana Gasteyer, Amy Poehler, Janeane Garofalo, Jan Hooks, and Kate McKinnon.
- "Living History", her 2003 memoir of her life with President Bill Clinton, including his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, is the fastest selling non-fiction book ever.
- Is the first female U.S. Senator from the state of New York.
- 1984 Arkansas Mother of the Year.
- She is a spicy food aficionado, often snacks on jalapeños, and carries hot sauce with her, as she says it helps her immune system. She mentioned this during an interview on New York City's 105.1 FM the Breakfast Club in 2016 and it became a minor controversy as the comment was accused of being pandering to black voters, as carrying hot sauce had been recently popularized by a lyric in the Beyoncé song "Formation", though Clinton has been quoted as far back as 1995 stating she carries hot sauce with her.
- She was the first US First Lady to seek and win a political office while still being First Lady when she was elected to the US Senate from New York in 2000.
- Met her husband Bill Clinton, when she smiled at him in the Yale University library.
- Wanted to be an astronaut until she learned that NASA did not accept women in the 1950s and 1960s.
- Sought the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, and ultimately won 23 contests and 48% of the popular vote. Her win in the New Hampshire primary made her the first woman to win a major party presidential primary. On June 7, 2008, she suspended her run for president and endorsed the presumptive nominee, Senator Barack Obama.
- Between 1992 and 2008, the former First Lady appeared on 24 covers of Time magazine setting a record unmatched by any other woman.
- Loves art, especially sculpture.
- Her first grandchild, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky, was born on September 26, 2014 to Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky. Her second grandchild, Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky, was born on June 18, 2016.
- Was reelected as United States Senator from New York with 67% of the vote (7 November 2006).
- Sir Elton John raised $2.5m for her 2008 presidential campaign with a concert at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
- Said that The Wizard of Oz (1939) was her favorite movie as a child, and that Casablanca (1942) is her adult favorite movie.
- Shares the same birthday (and was born in the same city) as Pat Sajak and is one year his junior.
- Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983.
- One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. [April 2014].
- Gave birth to her daughter Chelsea Clinton on 27 February 1980.
- Raised in a United Methodist family.
- Earned her Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Yale Law School [1973].
- Honorary President of the Girl Scouts of America.
- Grew up in the suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois.
- Announced her intentions to run for President of the United States on 20 January 2007 by forming a exploratory committee.
- When she was a young girl, was the president of Fabian's fan club.
- Born to Hugh Ellsworth Rodham (1911-1993), an executive in the textile industry, and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham (1919-2011), a homemaker, she has two brothers, Hugh and Tony.
- On June 7, 2016 she became the presumptive nominee for president of the Democratic Party, having won the majority of delegates against her primary opponent Bernie Sanders. She was formally nominated at the Democratic National Convention on July 26, 2016, becoming the first woman to be the nominee of a major party for president.
- Graduate of Wellesley College and Yale University Law School.
- Celebrities supporting her 2008 presidential campaign include Steven Spielberg, Candice Bergen, Michael Douglas, Madonna, Reese Witherspoon, Melissa Etheridge, America Ferrera, Rob Reiner, Martha Stewart, John Grisham, Janet Jackson, Hugh Hefner, Elizabeth Taylor, Rosie O'Donnell, Sir Elton John and Jerry Springer.
- Attended two high schools in Park Ridge, Illinois: Maine East High School, where a classmate was Steve Goodman, and Maine South High School, from which she graduated.
- Daughter-in-law of Virginia Clinton Kelley.
- Received the "Best Spoken Word Album" Grammy Award in 1997 for the recording of her book "It Takes A Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us".
- Pardodied the closing scene of "Made in America", the series finale of The Sopranos (1999), for her presidential campaign, entering a diner followed by her husband and daughter (June 2007).
- In both her 2008 primary and 2016 general election presidential runs she won the popular vote while losing the contests, as neither were decided by direct plurality voting. In the 2008 Democratic primaries, she received more verified votes than Barack Obama while Obama received more delegates, though the true popular vote winner is impossible to determine as Obama did not appear on the Michigan ballot while Clinton did, and numerous states held caucuses that did not release vote counts. In the 2016 presidential election, she won the popular vote against Donald Trump but lost the electoral college.
- Her ancestry is English, Welsh, smaller amounts of Scottish and French/French-Canadian, and remote Dutch and Swiss-French.
- Was paid $14 million advance for her memoir "Hard Choices.".
- She ranked #22 in Celebrity Sleuth 25 Sexiest Women of 1997.
- Sister-in-law of Roger Clinton.
- Clinton is the first Democrat The Dallas Morning News, a typically conservative paper, endorsed for president in 75 years. [Sept 28, 2016].
- Inducted into the Maine South High School [Park Ridge, Illinois] Wall of Honor in 2013 (inaugural class).
- Is a fan of the TV show Most Extreme Elimination Challenge (2003).
- (June 7, 2019) Her youngest brother, Tony Rodham, died at the age 64.
- Hillary became a Grandmother of 3 on July 22nd 2019 when Daughter Chelsea and husband Marc Mezvinsky welcomed a baby boy named Jasper.
- The New York Times endorsed her in the 2016 US presidential election, both in the Democratic primary and again for the general election.
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