Hillary Clinton

Biography

Hillary Clinton is a Democratic candidate in the 2008 presidential election and a U.S. senator from New York.

Early Life, Education and Career

Hillary Rodham Clinton was born Oct. 26, 1947, in Chicago, Ill. She grew up with her parents in Park Ridge, Ill.

Clinton graduated from Wellesley College in 1969 and then earned in law degree from Yale University in 1973.

She married Bill Clinton in 1975. She was the first lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and from 1983 to 1992.

As the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, Clinton advocated for child health care. 

Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000 and re-elected in 2006.

North Carolina Events

Johnny Taylor, a Charlotte vice president for an Internet company in New York, held a fundraiser for Clinton's Senate campaign at his home in March of 2006.

Two ambassadors appointed by Bill Clinton, Mark Erwin of Charlotte and Jeanette Hyde of Raleigh; and Crandall Bowles, a Hillary Clinton classmate at Wellesley and the wife of UNC President Erskine Bowles, also co-hosted the event.

Clinton raised more in North Carolina than any other Democrat from August to October, much of it from a fundraiser held in Charlotte by Bill.

Among her top donors: Ronald Bernstein of Durham, president and chief executive officer of Liggett Vector Group Inc., the fifth-largest cigarette manufacturer in the country.

Bill Clinton raised about $250,000 for Hillary's campaign Dec. 17 at a fundraiser at Brier Creek Country Club in Raleigh. On March 21, he appeared at a VFW post in Charlotte, a senior center in Cary and at a private reception at the home of Jeanette Hyde in Raleigh.

On March 27, she gave a speech on the economy at Wake Tech community college south of Raleigh and held rallies at Terry Sanford High School in Fayetteville and at Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem.

Endorsements 

Susan Burgess, a Charlotte Councilwoman and superdelegate, has said she will support Hillary at the Democratic convention. Gov. Mike Easley has also backed her.

Wake County commissioners Betty Lou Ward and Lindy Brown introduced Clinton at a Raleigh event.

Other expected endorsements are former ambassadors Jeanette Hyde and Mark Erwin, retired Charlotte bank executive Hugh McColl, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Hugh Shelton, poet Maya Angelou and Charlotte Bobcats owner Bob Johnson.

May 6 Primary

Because of the closeness of the delegate count between Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton, some political observers expect North Carolina's May 6 primary to be hotly contested.

Research and reporting by Karin Dryhurst and Ryan Teague Beckwith.

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