Hilary Clinton for Kids: A Biography of Hilary Clinton Just for Kids!

By KidLit-O

She’s one of the most powerful women in the world. But who is she really? This book, just for kids, will look at her childhood, education, marriage and work to see what made her who she is!

KidLit-o is a leading electronic publisher in children’s books; each month, it publishes several history, science and language arts books.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookCaps
• Release date: Jul 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301508716

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Hilary Clinton for Kids

A Biography of Hilary Clinton Just for Kids!

Sara Presley

By BookCaps Study Guides/KidLit-O

© 2011 by Golgotha Press, Inc.

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Chapter 1: Early Life

Hillary Clinton was born Hillary Diane Rodham on October 26, 1947, at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago, Illinois to Hugh Ellsworth Rodham and Dorothy (Howell) Rodham. Her paternal grandfather and grandmother both came from immigrant families from England and Wales. Her grandfather on her mother’s side was a Chicago fireman.

When Hilary’s maternal grandparents divorced, they sent Hillary’s mother from the small, crowded home they shared with others on a train by herself, when she was only eight years old, to go live with her grandparents. At the age of 14, Hillary’s mother left that home, all alone, during the Great Depression. She worked multiple jobs such as cook, housekeeper, and nanny, at the same time. Hillary Clinton has said that her political interest in the wellbeing of children was directly affected by her mother's life. In addition, Hillary’s mother helped Hillary develop a love for learning and encouraged her to be independent and to pursue an education and a career because she had never been able to do so herself.

In the same year that Hillary was born, her father, who had retired from the United States Navy and a job as a successful textile wholesale supplier, ran for political office. He ran for alderman of the 49th ward in Chicago as a member of the Independent Party, yet he lost badly—receiving only 382 votes out of 26,701. After such a close loss to the other candidate, Richard J. Daley, Hillary’s father moved his family from the city to the near-northwest Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, where they would remain for many years. Hillary’s father never ran for a political office again.

Hillary was the oldest child of three; her two younger brothers, Hugh and Anthony, were born in 1950 and 1954. All three children were christened at a church in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where their father was born. The Rodhams returned to the Scranton area each summer and stayed in their summer cottage on Lake Winola. Their father had built the modest, two-story cottage with his own father in 1921. Hillary and her family lived a simple life in this town of less than 1,000 people, and their cottage had no plumbing or running water. Hillary’s father valued modesty. Carl Bernstein wrote in his biography of Hillary Clinton that her father