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Jane Rodham Research Paper

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Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton “was born on October 26, 1947, at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago, Illinois”. She was raised in a family that was United Methodist. Rodham's family first lived in Chicago, Illinois in which her father Hugh Rodham made a small successful textile business. As for her mother, she was a homemaker. Her father was of English and Welsh descent while her mother was “from Dutch, English, French Canadian, Scottish and Welsh Descent”. During young Rodhams life, she was generally liked by her teachers at the Park Ridge school which she attended. While in school she participated in swimming and softball in which she won plenty of badges. While “on a trip to Chicago with her youth ministry Rodham had the chance to see Martin Luther King Jr. speak which sparked her lifelong passion for social justice.” In her early years, she was interested in the Space Race, she sent a letter to NASA asking them what …show more content…

While in college she became for interested in social justice activism. In college, she majored in political science. Rodham “had become a prominent student leader-she was elected by her peers to be the first ever student speaker at Wellesley commencement ceremony” according to Hillary Clinton's website. She supported elections of Republicans like “John Lindsay to Mayor New York City and Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke to the United States Senate”(Brock 1996, pp. 12–1). In her junior year in college Rodham was elected for the “presidential nomination campaign of Democrat Eugene McCarthy” according to New York Times article by Mark Leibovich. After Martin Luther King Junior’s death “Rodham organized a two-day student strike and worked with Wellesley's black student to recruit more black student and faculty”(Leibovich, 2007). When Rodham got fired from the Mount McKinley National Park washing dishes she striked about the unhealthy conditions in which it ran and got shut down

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