Early life and career of Bill Clinton Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. He was the son of William Jefferson Blythe Jr. (1918–1946), a traveling salesman who had died in an automobile accident three months before his birth, and Virginia Dell Cassidy (later Virginia Kelley: 1923–1994). His parents had married on September 4, 1943, but this union later proved to be bigamous, as Blythe had never divorced his third wife and was therefore still married to her. Soon after Bill was born, Virginia traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana to study nursing. She left her
Jefferson D. Hughes III Jefferson D. Hughes III Jefferson Davis Hughes III, known as Jeff Hughes (born January 1952), has been since 2013 a Republican associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. Hughes is the son of Jefferson Hughes Jr. (1924–2017), a former executive with the paper company, Crown Zellerbach, and the former Lorraine Elizabeth "Betty" Schertz. The junior Hughes was a native of Hammond in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, and the great-great-grandson of Peter Hammond, founder of that city. Hughes Jr. retired in 1986 from Crown Zellerbach as manager of Environmental Services and Association Affairs. He was then named a consultant for Cavenham and