What was the surname of the father of US President Bill Clinton, who died before his birth?
"Clinton (May 29, 1882 – October 10, 1975). The marriage produced one child, the actor and musician Roger Clinton Jr., who was born in 1956 and is the only one of Bill Clinton's siblings to have been raised with him and have a close relationship with him. In 1962, Roger and Virginia Clinton suffered a crisis in their marriage; they got divorced and then remarried in quick succession within that year. At this time, the 16-year-old William Jefferson Blythe III officially adopted his step-father's surname as his own and took the name William Jefferson Clinton. Roger Clinton died in 1967"
"She was defeated in the election by television personality and businessman Donald Trump. Bill Clinton's father, William Jefferson Blythe Jr. (February 27, 1918 – May 17, 1946), was a traveling heavy equipment salesman who died in a car crash three months before Bill was born. Blythe was born as one of nine children to William Jefferson Blythe Sr. (1884–1935), a poor farmer in Sherman, Texas, and his wife, the former Lou Birchie Ayers (1893–1946). He was of English and Scotch-Irish descent, with family lines in North America since the days of the thirteen colonies. Blythe was married four times. He"
"William Jefferson Blythe Jr. William Jefferson Blythe Jr. (February 27, 1918 – May 17, 1946) was an Arkansas salesman of heavy equipment and the father of Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States. Blythe died three months before his son was born. William Jefferson Blythe Jr. was born as one of nine children to William Jefferson Blythe Sr. (1884–1935), a farmer in Sherman, Texas, and his wife, the former Lou Birchie Ayers (1893–1946). He was of English and Scots descent, with family lines in North America since the days of the thirteen colonies. Blythe was married four times."
"Roger Clinton Sr. Roger Clinton Sr. (July 23, 1908 – November 8, 1967) was an American car salesman. He was the first stepfather of former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Roger Clinton was born in Yell County, Arkansas, the son of Allen W. Clinton (August 26, 1880 – June 14, 1965) and Eula Cornwell (May 29, 1882 – October 10, 1975). Clinton was an owner of the local Buick dealership, and ""a handsome, hell-raising, twice-divorced man from Hot Springs, Arkansas"". In 1950 he married Virginia Blythe, mother of the future president, whose first husband had died in a car crash in"
"59 in 1967. Roger Clinton Sr. Roger Clinton Sr. (July 23, 1908 – November 8, 1967) was an American car salesman. He was the first stepfather of former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Roger Clinton was born in Yell County, Arkansas, the son of Allen W. Clinton (August 26, 1880 – June 14, 1965) and Eula Cornwell (May 29, 1882 – October 10, 1975). Clinton was an owner of the local Buick dealership, and ""a handsome, hell-raising, twice-divorced man from Hot Springs, Arkansas"". In 1950 he married Virginia Blythe, mother of the future president, whose first husband had died in a"
"William was on his way back to Hope, he was killed in an automobile accident, three months before Bill Clinton's birth. Virginia later spent time in New Orleans, Louisiana training to be a nurse anesthetist. In 1950, Virginia married car salesman Roger Clinton Sr., the father of the second of her two boys, Roger Jr. Clinton, was an alcoholic and was physically and mentally abusive to Virginia and her boys. He did not adopt Bill, but Bill took his surname legally in 1962. He told his mother that it would be easier if they all had the same last name."
"that time, and certainly did not know of Blythe's first two marriages until decades after his death. After Blythe died, she moved back with her parents, gave birth to a son three months later, and named him William Jefferson Blythe III in honor of his paternal grandfather. This was the future Bill Clinton. In 1950, four years after Blythe's death, the young widow married car salesman Roger Clinton Sr. (July 23, 1908 – November 8, 1967). Roger was born in Yell County, Arkansas, in July 1908 to Allen W. Clinton (August 26, 1880 – June 14, 1965) and Eula Cornwell"
"Through his only son Charles, he was the grandfather of seven, including Revolutionary War Major General James Clinton (1736-1812) and New York Governor George Clinton (1739-1812), who served as the 4th Vice President of the United States. James Clinton (soldier) James Clinton ( – 24 January 1718) was an Irish soldier and politician who sired the American branch of the prominent Clinton family including 4th Vice President of the United States George Clinton and Revolutionary War Major General James Clinton. Clinton was born circa 1667 in Ireland. He was the son of Elizabeth (née Kennedy) Clinton and William Clinton (1614–1684),"
"20, 1993. She is buried alongside her first husband at Rose Hill Cemetery in Hope, Arkansas. In 1998, Clinton recounted that his mother, along with his wife and John Lewis, was one of the earliest supporters for his initial presidential campaign. Virginia Clinton Kelley Virginia Dell Blythe Clinton Dwire Kelley (""née"" Cassidy; June 6, 1923 – January 6, 1994) was an American Nurse Anesthetist and the mother of Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States. Virginia Dell Cassidy was born in Bodcaw, Arkansas. She was the only child of James Eldridge Cassidy (1898–1957), the town iceman (later a"
"Virginia Clinton Kelley Virginia Dell Blythe Clinton Dwire Kelley (""née"" Cassidy; June 6, 1923 – January 6, 1994) was an American Nurse Anesthetist and the mother of Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States. Virginia Dell Cassidy was born in Bodcaw, Arkansas. She was the only child of James Eldridge Cassidy (1898–1957), the town iceman (later a grocer), and Edith (née Grisham) Cassidy (1901–1968), a nurse. Her family moved to Hope, Arkansas when she was a toddler. During her high school years, she worked as a waitress at a local restaurant. Following her graduation from high school, Virginia"
"as ""Daddy"" in Bill Clinton's presidential memoir ""My Life"". Though Bill loved his stepfather, Roger's alcoholism and subsequent abuse of his mother and half-brother would lead to Bill's intervening on numerous occasions with physical force, each time resulting in his stepfather's arrest. Clinton was eventually reconciled with his stepson when Bill Clinton drove down from Georgetown on weekends to visit him at the Duke Medical Center in Durham, N.C., after he became ill. Roger's illness recurred later in the fall of 1967. After a period in hospital, he requested to come home to die. Roger Clinton died of cancer aged"
"President Thomas Jefferson dumped Aaron Burr from the ticket. Clinton sought his party's presidential nomination in the 1808 election, but the party's congressional nominating caucus instead nominated James Madison. Despite his opposition to Madison, Clinton was re-elected as vice president. Clinton died in 1812, leaving the office of vice president vacant for the first time in U.S history. Clinton's nephew, DeWitt Clinton, continued the Clinton New York political dynasty after his uncle's death. Clinton was born in 1729 in Little Britain, New York. His parents were Colonel Charles Clinton and Elizabeth Denniston Clinton, Presbyterian immigrants who had left County Longford,"
"James Clinton (soldier) James Clinton ( – 24 January 1718) was an Irish soldier and politician who sired the American branch of the prominent Clinton family including 4th Vice President of the United States George Clinton and Revolutionary War Major General James Clinton. Clinton was born circa 1667 in Ireland. He was the son of Elizabeth (née Kennedy) Clinton and William Clinton (1614–1684), a royalist officer in the army of Charles I of England. His father was a nephew of Thomas Clinton, 3rd Earl of Lincoln and a grandson of Henry Clinton, 2nd Earl of Lincoln. After the king's death"
"Henry's parents lost touch with each other when he was an infant, after his father briefly married and divorced his mother's sister, and he never knew his biological father or paternal siblings. Later in life, Henry Leon Blythe took the name ""Henry Leon Ritzenthaler"" in honor of a step-father. He ran several small businesses in Paradise, California, including a janitorial business, and died in 2009. He was unaware of his connection to the future president until the presidential campaign of 1992, when a ""Washington Post"" investigation, based on birth registry records, revealed details of Bill Clinton's family. Ritzenthaler met his"
"US President Bill Clinton, which made not have to join the US Army. Britt was born in the village of Olmsted in Pulaski County in southernmost Illinois to H.M. Britt, Jr. (February 27, 1895—March 31, 1982), and the former Sarah Theodosia Roach (August 25, 1896—January 10, 1987). Britt procured both his Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1941 and 1947, respectively. He was admitted to the practice of law in Illinois in 1947. A year later, the Britts relocated to Hot Springs, a resort city in central Arkansas. At that time"
"Hugh Rodham (born 1911) Hugh Ellsworth Rodham (April 2, 1911 – April 7, 1993) was an American businessman, who was the father of former First Lady of the United States, United States Senator from New York, United States Secretary of State, and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton. Rodham was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the son of Hugh Rodham (1879–1965) and Hannah Jones (1882–1952). His parents were either from or parentally from the United Kingdom – his father emigrated from Oxhill, County Durham, England, the son of a coal miner, while his mother was born in Pennsylvania, to immigrant"
"Thomas Clinton Thomas ""Tom"" Clinton (June 1, 1918 - August 8, 1981) was a businessman and religious leader instrumental in the formation of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Clinton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where his father James Clinton worked as an attorney. In 1924, when Clinton was six years old, his father joined the United States Foreign Service and the family moved frequently. Clinton's father was first posted in Paris until 1928, and Clinton learned to speak excellent French. Next, the family moved to Vienna, where it remained until 1931, and Clinton learned to speak German and experienced the German"
"Charles Clinton Col. Charles Clinton (1690 – 19 November 1773) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician in colonial America. A colonel of the French and Indian War, he was the father of General James Clinton and George Clinton, and the grandfather of DeWitt Clinton. Charles Clinton was born in Corboy, County Longford, Ireland. He was the son of James Clinton (d. 1718) and Elizabeth (née Smith) Clinton (d. 1728). In May 1729, Charles, his wife Elizabeth, with two daughters and one son, chartered a ship from Dublin called the ""George and Anne"" and sailed for Philadelphia with a group of"
"Bill Clinton, who, Hancock claims, has Romani ancestry. He also represented the Romani people at the 1997 Rafto Prize award. Hancock was born in London in 1942. His mother, Kitty, is Romanichal; his father, Reginald (Redžo), was part Romungro, the descendant of a Hungarian speaker of North Central Romani named Imre Benczi. He acquired the surname Hancock by Imre's daughter, Maria, who married a member of an English West Country showman family of that name. In the late 1960s, he became a Romani rights activist after reading reports about anti-Romani discrimination in Britain. In particular, he took up the cause"
"James Earl Carter Sr. James Earl Carter Sr. (September 12, 1894 – July 22, 1953) was an American businessman, farmer, and legislator from Plains, Georgia. He was the father of (former President of the United States) Jimmy Carter, Gloria Carter Spann, Ruth Carter Stapleton, and William Alton ""Billy"" Carter. James E. Carter was born in Arlington, Georgia. He was the fourth of five children born to William Archibald Carter and Nina Pratt. In 1904, after William Carter was murdered by a business partner, the Carter family moved to Plains, Georgia. The relocation allowed a supportive uncle to provide guidance to"
"Blythe Clinton Dwire Kelley), was born in Bodcaw, Arkansas on June 6, 1923. She was the only child of James Eldridge Cassidy (1898–1957), a grocer, by his wife Edith Grisham Cassidy (1901–1968), a nurse anesthetist. Bill Clinton's father, William J. Blythe, was her first husband, and she married him in September 1943, when she was 20 and he was 33 years old. On the day of their wedding, Blythe was still legally married to his third wife Wanetta; his divorce from her was finalized only in April the following year. However, Cassidy may not have known of this circumstance at"
"President Bill Clinton and later by Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin. Tolley died at his home in Corbett, Maryland on October 28, 2000 at the age of 92. A bronze bust of Admiral Tolley was erected at the United States Naval Academy in his honor. Kemp Tolley Rear Admiral Kemp Tolley (29 April 1908 – 28 October 2000) was an officer in the U.S. Navy and is the author of three books and numerous articles on the history of U.S. Navy activities in the Pacific, China, and the Soviet Union. Admiral Tolley was born in Manila in, while his father,"
"George W. Clinton Hon. George William Clinton (April 21, 1807 – September 7, 1885) was a New York lawyer, politician, judge, author, and amateur naturalist. He served as Mayor of Buffalo, New York from 1842 to 1843. Clinton was born on April 21, 1807 in New York City to Maria Franklin (1775-1818) and DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828), while the latter was serving as Mayor of New York City. His father later became a U.S. Senator and the 6th Governor of New York. He was the grandson of Major-General James Clinton (1736-1812), grandnephew of George Clinton (1739-1812), the 4th U.S. Vice President,"
"lost touch with each other when he was an infant, after his father briefly married and divorced his mother's sister, and he never knew his biological father or paternal siblings. Later in life, Henry Leon Blythe took the name Henry Leon Ritzenthaler in honor of a step-father. He ran several small businesses in Paradise, California, including a janitorial business, and died in 2009. He was unaware of his connection to the future president until the presidential campaign of 1992, when an investigation by ""The Washington Post"", based on birth registry records, revealed details of Bill Clinton's family. Ritzenthaler met his"
"Dorothy Howell Rodham Dorothy Emma Rodham (née Howell; June 4, 1919 – November 1, 2011) was an American homemaker and the mother of former First Lady, U.S. Senator, United States Secretary of State, and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Dorothy Howell was born in Chicago, the daughter of Edwin John Howell, Jr. (1897–1946), a Chicago firefighter, and Della Murray (1902–1960). She had a younger sister, Isabelle (born 1924). Her ancestry consisted of Welsh, English, Scottish, French, and distant Dutch heritage; her paternal grandfather was an immigrant from Bedminster, Bristol in England, and many of her recent forebears had lived"
"Facebook advertisements prior to the 2016 presidential election included (among others) ads claiming that Williams was Clinton's son. Williams has five children and is unmarried. Danney Williams Danney Lee Williams Jr. (born December 7, 1985) is a biracial man from Little Rock, Arkansas who claims to be the biological son of Bill Clinton, the former President of the United States. In 1999, a paternity test excluded Clinton as the father, and the story has been described as ""a cruel hoax by the boy's mother"". Williams was born in 1985 to Danney Williams Sr. and Bobbie Ann Williams, a former prostitute."
"all races. In 1950, Bill's mother returned from nursing school and married Roger Clinton Sr., who co-owned an automobile dealership in Hot Springs, Arkansas with his brother and Earl T. Ricks. The family moved to Hot Springs in 1950. Although he immediately assumed use of his stepfather's surname, it was not until Clinton turned 15 that he formally adopted the surname Clinton as a gesture toward his stepfather. Clinton said that he remembered his stepfather as a gambler and an alcoholic who regularly abused his mother and half-brother, Roger Clinton Jr., to the point where he intervened multiple times with"
"Jeff Dwire George Jefferson ""Jeff"" Dwire (June 6, 1923 – August, 1974) was an Arkansas small businessman and the third husband of Virginia Clinton Kelley, and a stepfather of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Roger Clinton, Jr.. He was born in Bodcaw, Arkansas. A veteran of World War II, Dwire was injured during a parachute jump and had later worked as a carpenter. He had worked his way through college as a hairdresser. Other occupations and avocations included playing football, teaching judo, building homes, and selling oil-well equipment and securities. Dwire, who had three daughters from a previous marriage,"
"president and Bill Osceola, vice president; however, Billy resigned and Bill Osceola served as first president. Bill married Charlotte Tommie (17 June 1921 – 8 January 1999)<ref name=""Charlotte DOB/DOD""></ref> with whom he had four children and adopted two daughters: Priscilla Osceola Sayen (24 November 1941 – 2 June 2014), Marcellus Osceola (22 October 1945), and Raymond Osceola (8 September 1949 – 12 November 2005); Yvonne Osceola Cortney, Judybill Osceola, and Cynthia Osceola. Bill Osceola died 16 April 1995 in Hollywood, Florida and was buried at Seminole Cemetery West. Bill Osceola Bill Osceola (30 June 1919 – 16 April 1995) was"
"Bridge in honor of Clinton. George Clinton (vice president) George Clinton (July 26, 1739April 20, 1812) was an American soldier and statesman, considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A prominent Democratic-Republican, Clinton served as the fourth Vice President of the United States from 1805 until his death in 1812. He also served as Governor of New York from 1777 to 1795 and from 1801 to 1804. Along with John C. Calhoun, he is one of two vice presidents to hold office under two presidents. Clinton served in the French and Indian War, rising to the rank"
"and died four days later at the age of 81. Richard Milhous Nixon was born on January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California, in a house that was built by his father. His parents were Hannah (Milhous) Nixon and Francis A. Nixon. His mother was a Quaker, and his father converted from Methodism to the Quaker faith. Nixon was a descendant of the early American settler, Thomas Cornell, who was also an ancestor of Ezra Cornell, the founder of Cornell University, as well as of Jimmy Carter and Bill Gates. Nixon's upbringing was marked by evangelical Quaker observances of the"
"before his 83rd birthday, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Robert Todd Lincoln was born in Springfield, Illinois, on August 1, 1843, to Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln. He had three younger brothers, Edward Baker Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln, and Thomas ""Tad"" Lincoln. By the time Lincoln was born, his father had become a well-known member of the Whig political party and had previously served as a member of the state legislature for four terms. Robert Lincoln was named after his maternal grandfather. By the time his father became president of the United States, Lincoln was the only"
"her full and chosen name, ""Virginia Dell Blythe Clinton Dwire Kelley."" Bill and Hillary Clinton's daughter Chelsea Victoria Clinton was born on February 27, 1980, in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, while her father was Governor of Arkansas. On July 31, 2010, Clinton and investment banker Marc Mezvinsky were married in an interfaith ceremony in Rhinebeck, New York. Mezvinsky (born December 15, 1977) is the son of former members of Congress Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky and Edward Mezvinsky, and was raised in the Conservative Jewish tradition. The senior Clintons and Mezvinskys were friends in the 1990s and their children met on a"