This Wonderful Day in History

On August 19, 1946, William Jefferson Blythe III was born at the Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, AR. Blythe's father, a traveling salesperson, died in an automobile accident three months before Blythe was born and Blythe's now widowed mother eventually remarried four years later. And although Blythe was not formally adopted by his mother's second husband, he officially took his current surname at the age of fourteen as a kind gesture towards his stepfather. That last name? Clinton. Fast forward thirty-one years later, William Jefferson Clinton was thankfully elected as the 42nd President of the United States. Enough said.