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The Clinton family is a prominent American political family. Its leading members are Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States, and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, 67th United States Secretary of State.

Parents and Stepfathers of Bill Clinton
Virginia Dell Cassidy married William Jefferson Blythe, Jr. in 1943. Blythe died in a car accident on May 17, 1946, and his son William Jefferson Blythe III was born on August 19, 1946. Virginia Blythe married Roger Clinton in 1950, and had one son, Roger, Jr. in 1956. In 1962, they divorced but remarried in a matter of months, at which point, William J. Blythe III changed his last name to Clinton. Roger Clinton, Sr. died in 1967. In 1969, Virginia Clinton married her third husband, Jeff Dwire, who died in 1974. In 1982, Virginia Dwire married Richard Kelley, to whom she would remain married until her own death in 1994, when her elder son was serving as President of the United States.

Parents of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hugh Ellsworth Rodham married Dorothy Emma Howell in 1942. The Rodhams had three children: Hillary Diane (born 1947), Hugh Edwin (born 1950), and Anthony Dean "Tony" (born 1954). The elder Hugh died on April 7, 1993, while his daughter was serving as First Lady of the United States.

Rodham brothers and the U.S. Senate
On May 28, 1994, Tony Rodham married Nicole Boxer, the daughter of U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer of California, in a White House ceremony (they would divorce in 2000). Later that year, the younger Hugh Rodham won the Democratic Party nomination for the U.S. Senate in Florida, but was defeated by a 71%-29% margin by the Republican incumbent, Connie Mack.

Marriage and political rise of Bill and Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton married Hillary Rodham in 1976. They have one daughter, Chelsea, who was born in 1980, while her father was serving his first term as Governor of Arkansas. Bill Clinton would become President of the United States in 1993. Shortly before her husband left the presidency, Hillary Clinton became a U.S. Senator. After a failed bid for President in 2008, she was appointed Secretary of State by President Barack Obama.

Chelsea Clinton marries congressional son
On July 31, 2010, Chelsea Clinton married Marc Mezvinsky, who is the son of former U.S. Congressman Edward Mezvinsky of Iowa and former U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky of Pennsylvania.