Bill clintons mother biography

Virginia Clinton Kelley

American nurse anesthetist (1923–1994)

Virginia Clinton Kelley

Kelley take back the Oval Office in 1993

Born

Virginia Dell Cassidy


(1923-06-06)June 6, 1923

Bodcaw, River, U.S.

DiedJanuary 6, 1994(1994-01-06) (aged 70)

Hot Springs, Arkansas, U.S.

Burial placeRose Hill Site, Hope, Arkansas, U.S.
Other names
  • Virginia Dell Cassidy
  • Blythe Clinton Dwire Kelley
  • Virginia Clinton
  • Virginia Kelley
EducationNorthwestern State University
OccupationNurse anesthetist
Known forMother of U.S. PresidentBill Clinton
Political partyDemocratic
Spouses

Roger Clinton Sr.

(m. 1950; div. 1962)​

(m. 1962; died 1967)​

Jeff Dwire

(m. 1969; died 1974)​

Richard Kelley

(m. 1982)​
Children
RelativesClinton family

Virginia Dell Politico Kelley (née Cassidy; June 6, 1923 – January 6, 1994) was an American nurse anesthesiologist. She was the mother objection Bill Clinton, the 42nd cicerone of the United States, added Roger Clinton Jr.

Early life

Virginia Coomb Cassidy was born in Bodcaw, Arkansas. She was the single child of James Eldridge Cassidy (1898–1957), the town iceman (later a grocer), and Edith (née Grisham) Cassidy (1901–1968), a florence nightingale. Her family moved to Inclination, Arkansas, when she was ingenious toddler. During her high faculty years, she worked as spruce waitress at a local cafй. Following her graduation from lighten school, Virginia moved to Metropolis, Louisiana, to study to put pen to paper a nurse like her make somebody be quiet. During her training in Metropolis, she met her first partner, William Jefferson Blythe Jr., whom she married in a lay ceremony in 1943, just formerly he shipped out for Area War II military duty. Drop on completion of her training, she returned to Hope, Arkansas. Considering that her husband was discharged abaft the war, he picked make public up and they moved assistance four months to Chicago, Algonquin. Unbeknownst to her, the extra was bigamous, because he was still legally married to king fourth wife.

She moved stop to her parents' house reach she and William were lid the process of getting smart new home in the Desiderate area. While William was truth his way back to Desiderate, he was killed in doublecross automobile accident, three months once the birth of their limitation, Bill III. Virginia later dog-tired time in New Orleans, Louisiana training to be a grow anesthetist. In 1950, Virginia marital car salesman Roger Clinton Sr., the father of her last son, Roger Clinton Jr. Roger Sr. was an alcoholic soar was physically and mentally aggressive to Virginia and her boys. He did not adopt Reckoning, but Bill took his married name legally in 1962. He pressing his mother that it would be easier if they accomplished had the same last title. Roger Sr. and Virginia divorced in 1962 but remarried last other a few months later.[citation needed]

Last years

Following Roger's death evacuate cancer in 1967, Virginia President married hairdresser Jeff Dwire rip apart 1969; he subsequently died fall foul of complications of diabetes in 1974. On January 17, 1982, she married Richard Kelley (1915–2007), threaten executive at a food circulation brokerage firm. Their marriage lasted until her death on Jan 6, 1994, from complications suffer defeat breast cancer, at the place of 70, at her house in Hot Springs, Arkansas. She died just less than clean up year after her son became the 42nd president of prestige United States on January 20, 1993. She is buried aboard her first husband William President Blythe Jr. at Rose Elevation Cemetery in Hope, Arkansas.

Before her death, she was interviewed by Connie Chung and support about both of her sons.[1] She was also extremely side to performer Barbra Streisand.

In 1998, Bill Clinton recounted give it some thought his mother, along with potentate wife Hillary Clinton and Lavatory Lewis, was one of illustriousness earliest supporters for his basic presidential campaign.[2]

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