Profile
Hugh E. Rodham
Businessman + Jobber + Senator
Male
Born
Apr 2, 1911
Hometown
United States
Died
Apr 7, 1993
Death Place
Little Rock, Arka...
Hugh Ellsworth Rodham was an American textile wholesaler and father of former New York Senator, former First Lady of the United States and current United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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City Cites West Scranton Cemetery For Unsafe Sidewalks And Overgrown Grass Scranton Times TribuneGoogle News - Jun 18, 2011
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Nightclub King Gerry Kelly Throws Himself A Birthday Bash Examiner.ComGoogle News - Jun 15, 2011
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Open Letter To Hilary Clinton From Ethiopia By Eskinder Nega. AbugidainfoGoogle News - Jun 10, 2011
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CHILDHOOD
1911
Birth
Born in 1911.
TWENTIES
1935
24 Years Old
Rodham attended Pennsylvania State University and was a third-string tight end for the Penn State Nittany Lions football team. He joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education from the College of Education in 1935, at the height of the Great Depression.
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1937
26 Years Old
In 1937, while Rodham was making a sales call at a textile company, he met Dorothy Emma Howell (1919–2011), who was applying for a job at that company. After a lengthy courtship, they married in early 1942.
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THIRTIES
1947
36 Years Old
Rodham tried politics once, running for Chicago alderman as an independent in 1947; he lost badly to the Richard J. Daley political machine with which he was hoping to ingratiate himself.
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FIFTIES
1964
53 Years Old
Rodham was a staunch supporter of Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign and remained a committed Republican until his death.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1992
81 Years Old
In late 1992, following Bill Clinton's election as president, Rodham made a cameo appearance on the television comedy Hearts Afire, whose producers were friends of the Clintons.
1993
82 Years Old
Hugh Rodham died in Little Rock, Arkansas, on April 7, 1993, three weeks after suffering a stroke and less than three months after Bill Clinton's inauguration as U.S. president.
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