TIME

First in everything…..Except being president

The applause and deafening cheers of the

crowd roared through the halls of the event center .
As she took the stage a hush fell over the crowd and
as she spoke the exuberance of the room began to
fade. Life always finds a way to humble us. It's
unfortunate, but it always happens. It's inevitable.
Perhaps a self fulfilling prophecy, the life of one
Hillary Rodham Clinton is a prime example of life’s
remarkable ability to humble us. Though it may
seem an inconsequential fact Hillary Diane Rodham
Clinton was her parents “first” a word that would
follow her around for the rest of her life.
Born in Chicago in 1947 Hillary Diane
Rodham, had a relatively normal life; her mother
was a homemaker and her father, the former chief
petty officer of the Great Lakes Naval Station, had
started a successful drapery supply business. Her
family lived in a middle class neighborhood in the
suburbs of chicago. Hillary was an extremely gifted
student throughout her primary and high school
education, Because of this she was able to attend
the prestigious Wesleyan college in 1969 and later
on Yale Law School.
While at Yale University Hillary met her
husband Bill Clinton and a few short years later they
were married in their living room in Arkansas. A few
years later and her husband Bill Clinton is elected
Governor of Arkansas and Hillary Clinton has the 1st
of her life filled with 1sts and is the first governor's
wife in Arkansas history to work while her husband
was in office. From that moment on Hillary Clinton
became a trailblazer in every field she explored.
After her husband’s stint as governor of Arkansas he
ran and was elected President of the United States,
thus making Hillary the First Lady. During her
husband's time as First Lady she was not content
spending her days hosting meaningless social
engagements instead-
 she helped her husband shape his administration's
political policy. She was also the 1st First Lady to
visit and speak at the UN’s conference on women's
rights in China.
After her husband's time in the white house
she decided to “retire” to New York state where she
later would become the 1st former first lady ever
elected to the United States Senate. From there she
would run against Barack Obama for the 2008
Democratic Presidential Primary where she was
winning until she was told to”stand down” by the
party because they didn't think she could beat John
McCain. She was then appointed to the position of
US Secretary of State making her the 1st former
First Lady to hold a cabinet position. Hillary Clinton
would continue her streak of “firsts” when she
became the 1st woman to secure a major political
party’s nomination for President in 2016.
Unfortunately for many that would be the end of her
streak of firsts.

Though Hillary Clinton never made it to the

highest office in this nation despite running twice
she was a trailblazer and inspiration for women
around the worlds who’s contributions to the sex of
women is too often over looked or forgotten.