Clinton family She was defeated in the election by television personality and businessman Donald Trump. Bill Clinton's father, William Jefferson Blythe Jr. (February 27, 1918 – May 17, 1946), was a traveling heavy equipment salesman who died in a car crash three months before Bill was born. Blythe was born as one of nine children to William Jefferson Blythe Sr. (1884–1935), a poor farmer in Sherman, Texas, and his wife, the former Lou Birchie Ayers (1893–1946). He was of English and Scotch-Irish descent, with family lines in North America since the days of the thirteen colonies. Blythe was married four times. He
William J. Jefferson Governor of Louisiana, 1999 Threshold > 50% First Ballot, October 23, 1999 U. S. Representative, 2nd Congressional District, 2000 Threshold > 50% First Ballot, November 7, 2000 U. S. Representative, 2nd Congressional District, 2002 Threshold > 50% First Ballot, November 5, 2002 U. S. Representative, 2nd Congressional District, 2004 Threshold > 50% First Ballot, November 2, 2004 U. S. Representative, 2nd Congressional District, 2006 Threshold > 50% First Ballot, November 7, 2006 Second Ballot, December 9, 2006 U. S. Representative, 2nd Congressional District, 2008 William J. Jefferson William Jennings "Bill" Jefferson (born March 14, 1947) is a former Louisiana politician.