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 In the lower-turnout runoff contest on December 8, 2012, Hughes defeated Guidry, 52,939 votes (52.8 percent) to 47,259 (47.2 percent), to claim the ten-year term on the Supreme Court to succeed the retiring Catherine D. Kimball, the chief justice in her last years on the tribunal. Justice Hughes resides in Walker and attends the Shady Bower Pentecostal Church there. 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