Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (born 1946) is an American retired politician and lawyer who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A Democrat, he previously served as attorney general of Arkansas (1977–1979) and as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 1992. His centrist Third Way political philosophy, known as Clintonism, defined his presidency.
Biography
Bill Clinton was born in Hope, Arkansas, in 1946. He studied at Georgetown, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and Yale Law School, and was Governor of Arkansas for most of the period from 1979 to 1992.
He defeated President George H. W. Bush in 1992. As president (1993-2001) he presided over a long economic expansion and the first federal budget surpluses in decades, signed the North American Free Trade Agreement and welfare reform, and supported NATO intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo and the Oslo peace process.
In 1998 the House impeached him for perjury and obstruction of justice over his relationship with the White House intern Monica Lewinsky; the Senate acquitted him. After leaving office he founded the Clinton Foundation.
Offices held
Joe Purcell Succeeded by
Jim Guy Tucker
2 terms
- Jan 9, 1979 – Jan 19, 1981 Preceded by Joe Purcell Succeeded by Frank D. White
- Jan 11, 1983 – Dec 12, 1992 Preceded by Frank D. White Succeeded by Jim Guy Tucker
George H. W. Bush Succeeded by
George W. Bush
