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My Take
What strikes me most about Hillary Clinton is sheer durability. First lady, senator, secretary of state—each role earned under relentless scrutiny that would have ended most careers several times over. I find her most interesting in defeat: after losing the presidency she wrote, taught, and stayed in the arena rather than retreating into bitterness. You can debate her policies and her instincts, and half of America does, but the crack she put in the highest glass ceiling made every campaign after hers imaginable. As an editor I value persistence over charisma, and her career is one of the great case studies in refusing to disappear.
Overview
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (née Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and the first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the wife of Bill Clinton.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Hillary Clinton
- Name (Japanese)
- ヒラリー・クリントン
- Reading
- ひらりー・くりんとん
- Born
- October 26, 1947 (age 78)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Boar
- Origin
- Edgewater Hospital, Illinois, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- politician / lawyer / diplomat / autobiographer / university teacher
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Maine South High School
- University
- Wellesley College
Awards & achievements
- honorary doctorate
- 1993 honorary doctor of the University of Pennsylvania
- 1995 honorary doctorate
- 1993 Gallup's most admired man and woman poll
- 2004 honorary doctorate
- 2005 honorary doctorate
- 2005 National Women's Hall of Fame
- 2007 honorary doctor of the University of Gothenburg
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | It Takes a Village | — | |
| Notable work | An Invitation to the White House | — | |
| Notable work | Living History | — | |
| Notable work | Hard Choices | — | |
| Notable work | What Happened | — | |
| Notable work | Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families | — |
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.