![]() ![]() It was there that Clinton met her future husband, William “Bill” Clinton. In 1969, Clinton attended Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors for the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. When her classmates elected her as Wellesley’s first student speaker at graduation, she said to her peers: “The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.” Her parents were Republicans and Clinton served as president of Wellesley’s Republican club, but the social issues of the late 1960s led her to become a dedicated Democrat. They encouraged her to take education seriously, and she earned entrance to Massachusetts’ Wellesley College. ![]() Hillary Diane Rodham was born in a suburb outside of Chicago, Illinois in 1947 to middle-class parents. She is also the first woman to win the Iowa Presidential Caucus, the first First Lady elected to the United States Senate, and the first female senator from New York. In July of 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first woman in history to represent a major party in a United States presidential election. ![]()
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