Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton  is  currently the US  Secretary of State .  She is Wife of  former US President Bill Clinton served as United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. She was one of the major Competitor to Barack Obama during Presidential Polls.
She was born as Hillary Diane Rodham on  October 26, 1947  at Illinois. Her Father was a small  Businessman.Her mother wanted her to have an independent, professional career, and her father, otherwise a traditionalist, was of the opinion that his daughter’s abilities and opportunities should not be limited by gender. She  grew up with two younger brothers, Hugh and Tony.
At  the age of thirteen Hillary found evidence of electoral fraud against Republican candidate Richard Nixon, which kick-started her political career.  She then volunteered to campaign for Republican candidate Barry Goldwater in the U.S. presidential election of 1964.
She briefly served as  faculty members in the School of Law at the University of Arkansas. Having an independent Political image, she was reluctant to marry  Bill Clinton fearing that her separate identity might be lost. Finally she agreed to marry in 1975. Their wedding took place on October 11, 1975, in a Methodist ceremony in their living room. She announced she was keeping the name Hillary Rodham, to keep their professional lives separate and avoid apparent conflicts of interest and because “it showed that I was still me,” although her decision upset their mothers.
Following her husband’s November 1978 election as Governor of Arkansas, Rodham became First Lady of Arkansas in January 1979, her title for twelve years (1979–1981, 1983–1992). Clinton appointed her chair of the Rural Health Advisory Committee the same year, where she secured federal funds to expand medical facilities in Arkansas’s poorest areas without affecting doctors’ fees.
On February 27, 1980, Rodham gave birth to a daughter, Chelsea, her only child.
She played a very active role in her husband’s Presidential Campaign in 1992. Bill  Clinton often used to say that in electing him, the nation would “get two for the price of one”, referring to the prominent role his wife would assume.
After Clinton became President , she worked as his advisor and often people referred her as Co-President of United States.
She never missed her duties as a good wife. She stood in support of her Husband during Lewinsky Scandal. In her 2003 memoir, she  attributed her decision to stay married to “a love that has persisted for decades”.
“No one understands me better and no one can make me laugh the way Bill does. Even after all these years, he is still the most interesting, energizing and fully alive person I have ever met”, she wrote.
In 2000, Hillary Clinton made history as the first First Lady elected to the United States Senate, and the first woman elected statewide in New York. In the Senate, she served on the Armed Services Committee, the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, the Budget Committee and the Select Committee on Aging. She was also a Commissioner on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
In 2006, Hillary Clinton won re-election to the Senate, and in 2007 she began her historic campaign for President. In 2008, she campaigned for the election of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and in November, she was nominated by President-elect Obama to be Secretary of State.