Hillary Rodham Clinton was born in 1947 in Chicago. Her father owned a small textile business and her mother was a homemaker. When s was a teen she wr a letter t NASA ask what s had t do t become a astronaut, b was to that wo were n being acce on t programme a that ti. She m her fut husband, Bill Clinton, wh both we studying a Yale Law Sch and th later mo to Arkansas. In 2001 she was elected to the US Senate and in this way became the first woman in US history to be a senator and first lady at the same time. She lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump.