![hillary-clinton-roots-3](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hillary-clinton-roots-3.png?w=1200)
![Hillary Rodham and her mother, Dorothy, in a family photograph from 1948.](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-biography-photos-011.jpg?w=740)
![Hillary Clinton, 1960.](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-biography-photos-021.jpg?w=760&w=760)
![Hillary, seen in a picture at Waine Township High School South.](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-biography-photos-031.jpg?w=750)
![Hillary Rodham (center) attends a student rally at Wellesley College, on Oct. 8, 1968.](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-biography-photos-04.jpg?w=1200&w=1200)
![Hillary Clinton as an intern with Congress, Summer 1968.](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-biography-photos-061.jpg?w=760&w=760)
![Class leader Hillary Rodham of Wellesley College t](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hilary-clinton-biography-photographs-election-2016-0012.jpg?w=760&w=760)
![Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton at Yale Law School, 1972.](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-biography-photos-071.jpg?w=760&w=760)
![After law school, Hillary Clinton went to work for the ChildrenâÂÂs Defense Fund.](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-biography-photos-081.jpg?w=750)
![Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton on their wedding day, on Oct. 11, 1975.](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-biography-photos-091.jpg?w=1200&w=1200)
![CHELSEA CLINTON](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-biography-photos-101.jpg?w=760&w=760)
![After Bill Clinton became governor of AR, Hillary Clinton made it her mission as first lady to improve the stateâÂÂs lagging health care and education systems.](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-biography-photos-111.jpg?w=960)
![The Clintons pose for a family portrait on June 1991.](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-biography-photos-122.jpg?w=760&w=760)
![Hillary Rodham Clinton, Tipper Gore](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-biography-photos-131.jpg?w=1200&w=1200)
![Bill and Hillary Clinton dance on stage at the inaugural ball, in Washington, on Jan. 20, 1993.](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-biography-photographs-election-2016-001.jpg?w=1200&w=1200)
![First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton does stretching exercises with a group of youngsters and senior citizens at the Heritage Cleveland Circle Assisted Living Facility in Brookline, Mass. on May 23, 1995 during a visit to the Boston area focused on health care.](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-biography-photographs-election-2016-001a.jpg?w=1200&w=1200)
![Getting ready for President Clinton's second inaugural, Hillary gets her first glimpse of daughter Chelsea's short Skirt on Jan. 20, 1997.](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-biography-photos-151.jpg?w=1200&w=1200)
![Hillary Clinton, Time & Life, 1979-2010](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hilary-clinton-biography-photographs-election-2016-001a.jpg?w=1200&w=1200)
![Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton Share a private moment, one of their last in the Oval Office on Jan. 11, 2001.](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-biography-photos-171.jpg?w=1200&w=1200)
![Hillary Rodham Clinton](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hilary-clinton-biography-photographs-election-2016-001b.jpg?w=1200&w=1200)
![WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 9: U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) looks over her papers before the start of a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill September 9, 2003 in Washington, DC. The committee is hearing testimony from Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and others on U.S. military commitments and ongoing military operations abroad. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hilary-clinton-biography-photographs-election-2016-001c.jpg?w=1200&w=1200)
![Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-biography-photos-191.jpg?w=1200&w=1200)
![Hillary Clinton checks her messages upon departure from Malta for the as-yet-undisclosed location, Tripoli, Oct. 18, 2011.](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-biography-photos-201.jpg?w=1200&w=1200)
![CLINTON CAMPAIGN 19](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-biography-photos-221.jpg?w=1200&w=1200)
![Celebrity Sightings in New York City - June 20, 2016](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-biography-photos-231.jpg?w=1200&w=1200)
![Benjamin Lowy for TIME](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-biography-photographs-election-2016-001b.jpg?w=1200&w=1200)
![Hillary Clinton campaigning in the N.H. presidential primary at Winnacunnet High School, in Hampton, N.H., on Feb. 3, 2016.](https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-biography-photos-241.jpg?w=1200&w=1200)
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