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Bill Clinton (born 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Born and raised in Arkansas, he studied at Georgetown University before earning a Rhodes Scholarship to attend University College, Oxford. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, before leaving for Yale Law School, where he met his future wife, Hillary Clinton, who has served as the United States Secretary of State since 2009. Clinton was elected president in 1992, and presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history. After a failed health care reform attempt, Republicans won control of Congress in 1994, for the first time in forty years. Two years later, Clinton became the first member of the Democratic Party since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second full term as president. He successfully passed welfare reform and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, providing health coverage for millions of children. Later, he was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice in a scandal involving a White House intern, but was acquitted by the U.S. Senate and served his complete term of office. Clinton left office with the highest end-of-office approval rating of any U.S. president since World War II. Since then, he has been involved in public speaking and humanitarian work. (more...)