Career

1947 — Born in Chicago, Illinois.

1962 — Minister Don Jones takes Clinton and her church friends to meet Dr. Martin Luther King following a speech.

1964 — Canvasses for Republican presidential hopeful Barry Goldwater.

1965 — Graduates from Maine South High School in Park Ridge, Illinois.

1965 — Attends Wellesley College, an all-female school in New England.

1968 — Serves as President of Young Republicans as an undergraduate in college.

1968 — After meeting Saul Alinsky, she writes her senior thesis about his ideas. Delivers commencement address upon graduation.

1969 — Enters Yale Law School In New Haven, Connecticut. Switches her allegiance to the Democratic Party.

1970 — She becomes an intern for Marian Wright Edelman, a civil rights lawyer.

1970 — Does her first work for the Children’s Defense Fund.

1971 — Lives in a small house with fellow Yale Law student Bill Clinton.

1971 — Does work for Democratic Sen. Walter Mondale on migrant worker issues.

1972 — Works for the campaign of Democrat George McGovern.

1973 — Graduates from Yale Law School with a Juris Doctorate.

1974 — Appointed to Staff of House Judiciary Committee amidst President Nixon’s Watergate scandal. Works at the University of Arkansas Law School.

1975 — Marries Bill Clinton. Moves to a house that Bill bought for her in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

1976 — Begins work as an attorney at Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas where she would become a partner three years later.

1977 — Works on Democrat Jimmy Carter’s presidential campaign.

1977 — President Jimmy Carter appoints her to the board of the Legal Services Corporation.

1979 — Becomes first lady of Arkansas after husband Bill is elected its governor.

1980 — Daughter Chelsea Clinton is born.

1980 — Governor Clinton appoints her to the Rural Health Advisory Committee.

1981 — Establishes Whitewater Development Corp. with husband Bill along with James and Susan McDougal.

1982 — Begins second stint as Arkansas’ first lady after husband Bill wins the governorship back.

1983 — Governor Clinton taps her to head the Arkansas Education Standards Committee.

1991 — Husband Bill announces his bid for the U.S. presidency.

1992 — Sits down with Bill on “60 Minutes” to squash Jennifer Flowers’ allegations of sexual misconduct.

1993 — Becomes first lady of the United States after Bill is elected president.

1993 — Testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee in support of the president’s proposed health care overhaul.

1994 — Holds “pretty in pink” presser to deny any illegal wrongdoing during the ongoing “Whitewater” scandal.

1996 — Publishes “It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Our Children Teach Us”

1996 — Testifies before federal grand jury over the “Whitewater” scandal.

1999 — Dubs the Monica Lewinsky scandal a “vast right-wing conspiracy” in defense of her husband.

2000 — Elected to the U.S. Senate from New York.

2003 — Publishes “Living History”.

2006 — Re-elected to U.S. Senate from New York.

2007 — Launches her first campaign for the U.S. presidency.

2008 — Narrowly loses Democratic nomination to Sen. Barack Obama.

2009 — Sworn in as the 67th U.S. Secretary of State.

2012 — Released from the hospital following a blood clot in her head.

2013 — Testified before Senate Foreign Relations Committee over Benghazi attack. Resigns as U.S. Secretary of State.

2015 — Announces second bid for the U.S. presidency.

2015 — After its discovery, she holds presser and states the Clintonemail.com private server was used “out of convenience” during her time in the State Department. A full scale investigation is launched.

2015 — FBI Director James Comey clears Clinton of any illegal activity regarding the use of a private e-mail server, although says she acted “carelessly” with classified information.

2015 — Defeats Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination after a long primary battle, setting up general election contest with businessman Donald Trump.

Key issues

Taxes: She has made it a campaign promise to increased taxes on the wealthy. This includes a 4% surtax on incomes over $5 million, closing the “carried interest” loophole for financiers on Wall Street, increasing the capital gains tax and closing other tax loopholes.

Guns: While she recognizes the Second Amendment, she has called for “common sense” gun reform that would expand background checks and prevent certain individuals from purchasing firearms at licensed arm dealers. She is for closing the online and gun show loopholes, and has repeatedly called gun violence in America an “epidemic.”

Economy: She wants new investments in high tech, renewable energy, manufacturing and small business.  Through taxes on the wealthy she would also create new advanced job training programs. Children from low and middle-income families would be granted the opportunity to attend four-year public universities tuition free.

Immigration: She would use executive actions to create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented workers who have no criminal past.  A more permanent plan would be addressed in Congress, who she is asking to create a set of comprehensive reforms for immigration legalization. She would still enforce the border through patrol and security measures.

Foreign policy: She would expand efforts to defeat ISIS abroad, and combat the threat in Syria through establishing a no-fly zone and arming rebel groups in the region. She has reinforced the need to strengthen our alliances with countries such as Israel and Britain, is a strong supporter of NATO and supports a continued U.S. military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Trade: Although she once called it the “gold standard” of trade agreements, Clinton has reiterated her opposition to TPP in addition to the the Central American Free Trade Agreement in the face of public denigration. She has promised this position won’t change once she is elected president.

Climate change: She has confirmed her support for stringent regulations on fossil fuel companies, and promotes a clean energy future for America. While she does not support “cap and trade” policy, she has called climate change an “urgent threat” and has targeted a 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 with a goal of 80 percent reductions in carbon emissions by 2050.

Abortion and Marriage equality: Clinton is firmly in support of a woman’s right to choose, would keep Planned Parenthood fully funded, and opposes regulations by individual states that create new regulations on abortion providers. She supports the Supreme Court decision upholding gay marriage, and says she will fight to end discrimination against the LGBTQ community.