Election 2008 Candidates
Hillary Clinton
CORRECTION: U.S. senators press Vietnam on jailed priest
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of U.S. senators urged Vietnam's president on Wednesday to free a Catholic priest as human rights groups said his imprisonment justified putting Hanoi on a U.S. religious freedom blacklist. Full Article
Factbox: Hillary Rodham Clinton
First wife of an American president elected to public office, the U.S. Senate in 2000; re-elected in 2006 by wide margin.
Led White House task force in 1993 aimed at expanding U.S. health care to cover all Americans, but was derailed by conservative opposition in Congress
Served on the staff advising the House of Representatives' committee investigating the Watergate scandal
Author of two best-selling books, "It Takes a Village: and Other Lessons Children Teach Us" and her autobiography "Living History."
Born Oct. 26, 1947, in Chicago suburb, graduated from Wellesley College and Yale Law School where she met her husband Bill Clinton. They have one daughter, Chelsea.
