About Bill Clinton

Posted on 01 February 2013. Tags: About Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

In 1963, 17-year-old Bill Clinton met President John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C. The meeting inspired Clinton to go into politics.

In 1975, Bill Clinton married Hillary Rodham. Five years later, their daughter Chelsea was born. The family is shown here in 1993.

In the 1992 presidential election, Bill Clinton, right, chose Al Gore, left, to be his vice presidential candidate. The Clinton-Gore ticket won the election in November and took office in January 1993.

United States president Bill Clinton addresses U.S. soldiers in Germany in 1995. The troops were being sent as peacekeepers to Bosnia and Herzegovina

	President	Term of office	Vice president
1	George Washington	1789-1797	John Adams
2	John Adams	1797-1801	Thomas Jefferson
3	Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	Aaron Burr (1801-1805) George Clinton (1805-1809)
4	James Madison	1809-1817	George Clinton (1809-1812) Elbridge Gerry (1813-1814)
5	James Monroe	1817-1825	Daniel D. Tompkins
6	John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	John C. Calhoun
7	Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	John C. Calhoun (1829-1832) Martin Van Buren (1833-1837)
8	Martin Van Buren	1837-1841	Richard M. Johnson
9	William Henry Harrison	1841	John Tyler
10	John Tyler	1841-1845	(no vice president)
11	James Knox Polk	1845-1849	George M. Dallas
12	Zachary Taylor	1849-1850	Millard Fillmore
13	Millard Fillmore	1850-1853	(no vice president)
14	Franklin Pierce	1853-1857	William R. King (1853)
15	James Buchanan	1857-1861	John C. Breckinridge
16	Abraham Lincoln	1861-1865	Hannibal Hamlin (1861-1865) Andrew Johnson (1865)
17	Andrew Johnson	1865-1869	(no vice president)
18	Ulysses Simpson Grant	1869-1877	Schuyler Colfax (1869-1873) Henry Wilson (1873-1875)
19	Rutherford Birchard Hayes	1877-1881	William A. Wheeler
20	James Abram Garfield	1881	Chester A. Arthur
21	Chester Alan Arthur	1881-1885	(no vice president)
22	Grover Cleveland	1885-1889	Thomas A. Hendricks (1885)
23	Benjamin Harrison	1889-1893	Levi P. Morton
24	Grover Cleveland	1893-1897	Adlai E. Stevenson
25	William McKinley	1897-1901	Garret A. Hobart (1897-1899) Theodore Roosevelt (1901)
26	Theodore Roosevelt	1901-1909	Charles W. Fairbanks (1905-1909)
27	William Howard Taft	1909-1913	James S. Sherman (1909-1912)
28	Woodrow Wilson	1913-1921	Thomas R. Marshall
29	Warren Gamaliel Harding	1921-1923	Calvin Coolidge
30	Calvin Coolidge	1923-1929	Charles G. Dawes (1925-1929)
31	Herbert Clark Hoover	1929-1933	Charles Curtis
32	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	1933-1945	John N. Garner (1933-1941) Henry A. Wallace (1941-1945) Harry S. Truman (1945)
33	Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	Alben W. Barkley (1949-1953)
34	Dwight David Eisenhower	1953-1961	Richard M. Nixon
35	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	1961-1963	Lyndon B. Johnson
36	Lyndon Baines Johnson	1963-1969	Hubert H. Humphrey (1965-1969)
37	Richard Milhous Nixon	1969-1974	Spiro T. Agnew (1969-1973) Gerald R. Ford (1973-1974)
38	Gerald Rudolph Ford	1974-1977	Nelson A. Rockefeller
39	James Earl Carter	1977-1981	Walter F. Mondale
40	Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	George H. W. Bush
41	George H. W. Bush	1989-1993	Dan Quayle
42	William Jefferson Clinton	1993-2001	Albert Gore, Jr.
43	George W. Bush	2001-	Dick Cheney