The 42nd president Bill Clinton (1993— ) was born William Jefferson Blythe 4th on August 19, 1946.
His father, a traveling salesman, died in a car accident three months before he was born.
He received his new name when his mother married Roger Clinton, a car dealer, in 1950.
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