User blog:ARTaylor/Bill Clinton Turns 71

Today marks the seventy-first birthday of President William Jefferson Clinton. He was born William Jefferson Blythe III in Hope, Arkansas to William Jefferson Blythe Jr. and Virginia Dell Cassidy. Bill was his birth state's governor twice from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 1992 serving as the state's fortieth and forty-second governor. In 1993 he served two terms as the Commander in Chief of the United States of America. He won the 1992 election in a surprise upset beating the incumbent and popular president George H. W. Bush and became not only the third youngest president in the nation's history but the first of the Baby Boomer generation. In 1996, he became the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term. Bill presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in the country's history.



Clinton has since been recognized as one of the highest rated presidents. He left office with the highest end-of-office approval rating of any president since World War II. He has since been involved in a number of charity and humanitarian work including AIDS and global warming.

He is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who also ran for president twice, and has one child named Chelsea. As with any major public figure, he was prominently featured in a number of media including Marvel Comics. Jim Cummings played a version of the character on Iron Man and Fantastic Four, while his wife inspired a female president on X-Men.