Election of Hillary Clinton

Date: November 7, 2000 • Location: Shaw, United States

Hillary Clinton was elected as a US senator from New York, the first time a first lady had been elected to public office.

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, lawyer and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and the first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the wife of Bill Clinton. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee in the 2016 presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party. Clinton won the popular vote but lost the election to Republican Party nominee Donald Trump in the United States Electoral College. She is the only first lady of the United States to have run for, or held, elected office.