2000 United States Senate election in New York
In the United States Senate election held in the State of New York on November 7, 2000, Hillary Rodham Clinton, then First Lady of the United States and the first First Lady to run for political office, defeated U.S. Representative Rick Lazio. The general election coincided with the U.S. presidential election.
2000 United States Senate election in New York
Rudy Giuliani was the presumptive Republican nominee for most of 1999 and 2000, until he abruptly withdrew on May 19 following a cancer diagnosis and the public collapse of his marriage to Donna Hanover.
Having won the election, Clinton is sworn in as the junior senator from New York, January 3, 2001.
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as the first lady of the U.S. to president Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party and the first woman to win the popular vote for U.S. president.
Clinton in 2016
Rodham in Maine South High School's 1965 yearbook
Rodham campaigning for Wellesley College government president in 1968, an election which she later won
Hillary and Bill Clinton lived in this house in the Hillcrest neighborhood of Little Rock while he was Attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979.
