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 McMillan (college president) William McMillan (college president) William McMillan was elected the fourth president of Jefferson College on September 24, 1817. McMillan was educated at Jefferson College, the institution founded by his uncle, the Rev. John McMillan, graduating with the Jefferson class of 1802, the first class to graduate from the newly chartered college. He was one of the founders of the Philo Literary Society at Jefferson College. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Ohio on June 27, 1804 and was ordained June 26, 1806. McMillan resigned the presidency of Jefferson on August 14, 1822, after the Board of Trustees