William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born ) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
Clinton, a Democrat from Arkansas, took office after defeating the Republican incumbent president George H. W. Bush and independent businessman Ross Perot in the 1992 presidential election.
On 10 December 1988 the suburb of Clinton was created from the merger of the former suburbs Clinton North and Clinton South. The name Clinton is derived from the County of Clinton (the cadastral administrative division containing Gladstone).
Bill Clinton is the 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), who oversaw the country’s longest peacetime economic expansion. In 1998 he became the second U.S. president to be impeached; he was acquitted by the Senate in 1999. Learn more about Clinton’s life and career.
After a tough primary campaign, Bill Clinton won his party’s nomination and went on to defeat Republican President George H. W. Bush and independent candidate Ross Perot in the 1992 presidential race. When President Clinton won reelection in 1996, he became the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term.
Bill Clinton is an American politician from Arkansas who served as the 42nd President of the United States (1993-2001). He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first baby-boomer generation President.
William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, has spent a lifetime in public service and remains a dynamic force for global progress, democracy, and human rights.
Clinton is a town and suburb of Gladstone in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the suburb of Clinton had a population of 6,170 people.