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 Culbertson III William Culbertson III William Culbertson III (November 18, 1905 – November 16, 1971) was as an American pastor, bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, and the fifth president of the Moody Bible Institute, in Chicago, Illinois. Culbertson was born in Philadelphia on November 18, 1905, to William and Lydia (Roper) Culbertson. He graduated from the Reformed Episcopal Seminary, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a diploma in 1927. After graduation, he was ordained to the diaconate of the Reformed Episcopal Church and served as minister-in-charge of Grace Reformed Episcopal Church, Collingdale, Pennsylvania. He was ordained a presbyter the following year. On March