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
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.