Here's a look at the life of Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States.
Personal: Birth Date: August 19, 1946
Birth Place: Hope, Arkansas
Birth Name: William Jefferson Blythe IV
Father: William Blythe
Mother: Virginia (Kelley) Blythe
Marriage: Hillary (Rodham) Clinton (October 11, 1975 - present)
Children: Chelsea Victoria, February 27, 1980
Education: Georgetown University, B.S., 1968; Oxford University, Rhodes Scholar, 1968-1970; Yale University, J.D., 1973
Other Facts: Clinton's father, William Jefferson Blythe, died three months before his son's birth.
In his teens, Clinton adopted his stepfather Roger Clinton's last name.
The first Democrat since Franklin Delano Roosevelt to be elected to a second term.
Second U.S. president to be impeached. The first was Andrew Johnson in 1868.
Timeline: 1972 - Directs the Texas campaign of Democratic presidential candidate George S. McGovern.
1974 - Runs unsuccessfully for the House seat of Arkansas's Third Congressional District.
1976 - Runs unopposed for Arkansas State Attorney General.
1978 - Is elected governor of Arkansas at age 32.
1980 - Loses gubernatorial election.
1982 - Returns to office as governor of Arkansas.
1984 - Re-elected as governor of Arkansas. Also re-elected in 1986 and 1990.
1991 - Begins campaigning for the presidency.
June 3, 1992 - Clinton plays the saxophone on the Arsenio Hall Show.
November 3, 1992 - Is elected president, defeating George H. W. Bush and H. Ross Perot.
January 20, 1993 - Is sworn in as the 42nd president.
November 30, 1993 - Signs into law the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act. The bill requires background checks and a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases.
