Cultural and political image of Hillary Clinton almost exclusively as "Hillary Rodham". Bill Clinton's advisers thought her use of her maiden name to be one of the reasons for his 1980 gubernatorial re-election loss. During the following winter, Vernon Jordan suggested to Hillary Rodham that she start using the name Clinton, and she began to do so publicly with her husband's February 1982 campaign announcement to regain that office. She later wrote that "I learned the hard way that some voters in Arkansas were seriously offended by the fact that I kept my maiden name". Once he was elected again, she made a point of using "Hillary
Cultural and political image of Hillary Clinton She used "Hillary Rodham Clinton" again in official materials while serving as United States Secretary of State. In some instances, particularly in email correspondence, Clinton was referred to or signed communications by her initials, HRC. As Secretary of State, Clinton used "hdr22@clintonemail.com" as her private email address, incorporating her premarital initials. As of the 2015 launch of her second presidential campaign, she again switched to using "Hillary Clinton" in campaign materials. Clinton's Twitter account notes that tweets "from Hillary" (as opposed to staffers) are signed -H. As of November 30, 2015, both the "Associated Press" and the "New York Times"