William Jefferson Blythe Jr. lost touch with each other when he was an infant, after his father briefly married and divorced his mother's sister, and he never knew his biological father or paternal siblings. Later in life, Henry Leon Blythe took the name Henry Leon Ritzenthaler in honor of a step-father. He ran several small businesses in Paradise, California, including a janitorial business, and died in 2009. He was unaware of his connection to the future president until the presidential campaign of 1992, when an investigation by "The Washington Post", based on birth registry records, revealed details of Bill Clinton's family. Ritzenthaler met his
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.