President Clinton

United States President William Jefferson Clinton will speak at Carleton College's 126th annual commencement exercises on Saturday, June 10, 2000. Approximately 425 graduates will be awarded the bachelor of arts degree at the mid-morning ceremony. George H. Dixon and Bruno Nettl will receive honorary degrees.

William Jefferson Clinton is the 42nd President of the United States of America. He was sworn into office on January 20, 1993.

Elected Attorney General of Arkansas in 1976, President Clinton ran for Governor two years later and won; the people of Arkansas reelected him four more times. He served as Governor longer than all of his predecessors except one.

President Clinton has served as chair of the National Governors' Association, the Education Commission of the States, the Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission, the Southern Growth Policies Board, the Democratic Governors' Association, and the Democratic Leadership Council.

A fifth-generation Arkansan, President Clinton was born on August 19, 1946. He spent the first years of his life in Hope and then moved with his family to Hot Springs, where he graduated from high school

The President earned a Bachelor's degree from Georgetown University in 1968 and a law degree from Yale Law School in 1973. He also studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar from 1968 to 1970. The President was an attorney in private practice in Little Rock from 1981 to 1982 and has also served on the law school faculty at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

The President is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton, and they have a daughter, Chelsea. He is an avid reader, enjoys jogging and golf, and occasionally plays the saxophone.

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