Plate, Governor Bill Clinton Inaugural
Object number2007.153.01
Date1993
Mediumporcelain, paint
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
Terms
Governor Bill Clinton
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
Arkansas Governor's Mansion
April 12, 1983
Inaugurated President
United States of America
January 20, 1993
On back:
Bill Clinton spent his early years in Hope and Hot Springs, Arkansas. He left in 1964 to attend Georgetown University. Afterwards he studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and then entered Yale Law School where he met Hillary Rodham. While serving in 1975 as law professors at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville the couple were married. Their daugher, Chelsea Victoria Clinton, was borne to them on February 27, 1980.
The Clintons moved to Little Rock in 1976, where Bill won the state attorney general's race at age 30, and was later elected America's youngest governor at age 32.
Hillary worked as a lawyer with the presigious Rose Law Firm, and also had an ardent interest in education and child care. The Governor appointed her chair of the commission to make recommendations for education reform, and as President, Bill appointed Hillary to chair the commission to make recommendations on nationwide health care reform.
Status
Not on view
