42nd President of the United States, Democrat. In Office: January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001. Born: August 19, 1946. Bill’s wife, Hillary, served as U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, and the 2016 Democrat Party Presidential nomination. Mr. Clinton served as Governor of Arkansas, 1983 – 1992. He was the First Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt to be elected to a second full term as President of the United States. Reluctantly working with a Republican Congress that won unified control of both Houses in 1994, Clinton signed a welfare reform law, and a State Children’s Health Insurance Program. Clinton was impeached in 1998 for perjury and obstruction of justice, relating to a sex scandal involving White House employee Monica Lewinsky. The Senate acquitted him in 1999.
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