Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American Politician and this year’s Democratic Party candidate for the president of the United States. She was born on October 26, 1947 in Illinois. Her father, Hugh Ellsworth Rodham, managed a successful small business in the textile industry. Her mother is Dorothy Emma Howell and Secretary Clinton also has two younger brothers named Hugh and Tony Rodham. She played many sports as a child including swimming and baseball. She also participated in other activities such as girl scouts and selling brownies as a child. Secretary Clinton wanted to be an astronaut as a child and sent a letter to NASA asking about what she could do to become one in 1961 when she was 14. Later, after she sent the letter, she received
