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Bill Clinton

42nd president of the United States
Also known as: William J. Clinton, William Jefferson Blythe III, William Jefferson Clinton(Show More)
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Bill Clinton (born August 19, 1946, Hope, Arkansas, U.S.) 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. (Read President Clinton’s Britannica essay on the Dayton Accords.) Bill Clinton’s father was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before his son was born. His...

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