• Young Hillary Rodham wasn’t initially interested in politics, she had dreamed of “becoming a baseball player, a journalist, and an astronaut.”
• Hillary Rodham was born on Oct. 26, 1947, in Chicago, Ill. to Hugh and Dorothy Rodham. She was raised in Park Ridge, Illinois along with her two younger brothers Hugh Jr. and Anthony.
• She married Bill Clinton in 1975, and gave birth to her daughter, Chelsea, in 1980. She welcomed her first granddaughter, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky, in 2014.
• She attended Wellesley College and Yale Law School, where she met her husband. After she completed her law degree, she also took postgraduate classes at Yale Child Study Center.
• Clinton was once a Republican, even campaigning for Barry Goldwater in 1964. She switched parties in 1968, and went on to work for Democratic nominee George McGovern in 1972 and Jimmy Carter in 1976.
• In 1974, Clinton became a member of the presidential impeachment inquiry staff during the Watergate scandal. President Richard Nixon resigned later that year.
• In addition to serving as first lady, Clinton has had several other “firsts.” Clinton is the first presidential spouse to earn a postgraduate degree and the first to be elected to national office.
• She is also, according to author Sally Bedell Smith, the first presidential spouse to be subpoenaed. Bill and Hillary Clinton are the first and only first couple to be fingerprinted by the FBI.
• Hillary was both senator and first lady for 20 days. She was sworn in as a U.S. senator on Jan. 1, 2001, and Bill left the White House on the 20th.
• She won a Grammy in 1997 for Best Spoken Word Album for the audio version of her book “It Takes a Village.”
