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.