William Jefferson Blythe Jr. surname. Blythe was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas. In 1994, Virginia was interred beside him. In Clinton's 2004 autobiography, "My Life", the elder Blythe was extensively mentioned, including a visit that Clinton made to the site where his father drowned. William Jefferson Blythe Jr. William Jefferson Blythe Jr. (February 27, 1918 – May 17, 1946) was an Arkansas salesman of heavy equipment and the father of Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States. Blythe died three months before his son was born. William Jefferson Blythe Jr. was born as one of nine children
William C. Patrick III William C. Patrick III William C. Patrick III (July 24, 1926 – October 1, 2010) was an influential microbiologist and bioweaponeer for the U.S. Army during the Cold War. Patrick headed the American offensive biological warfare (BW) program at Fort Detrick, MD beginning in 1951. After biological weapons development was discontinued by President Richard Nixon in 1969, and the bioweapons were decommissioned in 1971-72, he continued to work at Fort Detrick on biowarfare defense projects until 1986. Patrick was born in Ridgeland, South Carolina in 1926. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and then attended and