CLINTON, WILLIAM J.

born August 19, 1946, Hope, Arkansas, U.S. Bill Clinton on the campaign trail in Kalamazoo, Michigan, August 1996. in full William Jefferson Clinton, original name William Jefferson Blythe III, byname Bill Clinton 42nd president of the United States (19932001), who oversaw the nation's longest peacetime economic expansion, helped to resolve international crises in Haiti and the Balkans, and attempted to broker peace settlements in Northern Ireland and the Middle East. In 1998 he became only the second U.S. president to be impeached after he was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice following his attempts to conceal an extramarital affair with a young female intern at the White House; he was acquitted by the Senate in 1999.