where did pres clinton go to college?
University College, Oxford Ramble Elementary Yale Law School Hot Springs High School Georgetown University Law Center Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service St. John's Catholic Elementary School
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 After Oxford , Clinton attended Yale Law School and earned a Juris Doctor ( J.D. ) degree in 1973 . In the Yale Law Library in 1971 he met fellow law student Hillary Rodham , who was a year ahead of him . They began dating and soon were inseparable . After only about a month , Clinton postponed his plans to be a coordinator for the George McGovern campaign for the 1972 United States presidential election in order to move in with her in California . They married on October 11 , 1975 , and their only child , Chelsea , was born on February 27 , 1980 . 

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 Clinton received Vietnam War draft deferments during 1968 and 1969 while he was in England . Planning to attend law school in the U.S , and aware that he might lose his draft deferment , he tried unsuccessfully to obtain positions in the National Guard or Air Force , and then made arrangements to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps ( ROTC ) program at the University of Arkansas . 

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 Clinton 's interest in law also began in Hot Springs High , when in his Latin class he took up the challenge to argue the defense of the ancient Roman Senator Catiline in a mock trial . After a vigorous defense that made use of his " budding rhetorical and political skills " , he told the Latin teacher Elizabeth Buck that it " made him realize that someday he would study law . " 

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 Griffin was born in Hope , Arkansas , and grew up 45 miles to the northeast in Arkadelphia . While attending Ouachita Baptist University , he volunteered for the 1992 presidential campaign of Bill Clinton , and , following the election , received a job offer from Dee Dee Myers to join the transition team and administration . Griffin dropped out of college and became , at the age of 19 , the youngest @-@ ever member of a presidential staff . He worked as a White House Press Office manager for two years . There , he also acted as White House liaison to the 1995 film The American President , where he met producer Rob Reiner . Griffin went on to lead Reiner 's charitable foundation and to work with Reiner on numerous political efforts , including the founding of the American Foundation for Equal Rights ( AFER ) . AFER is a nonprofit organization formed to challenge the federal constitutionality of California 's Proposition 8 , which limited legal recognition of marriage in California to opposite @-@ sex couples . After leaving the White House , Griffin entered the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University , from which he graduated in 1997 . Griffin was also a part of Griffin Schein , a consulting firm that he founded with Kristina Schake , former communications director for Michelle Obama . 

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 Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19 , 1946 , at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope , Arkansas . Clinton 's father , William Jefferson Blythe Jr . ( 1910 – 1946 ) , was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before Clinton was born . His mother , Virginia Dell ( née Cassidy ; 1923 – 1994 ) , traveled to New Orleans to study nursing soon after he was born . She left Clinton in Hope with her parents Eldridge and Edith Cassidy , who owned and ran a small grocery store . At a time when the Southern United States was segregated racially , Clinton 's grandparents sold goods on credit to people of all races . In 1950 , Bill 's mother returned from nursing school and married Roger Clinton Sr. , who owned an automobile dealership in Hot Springs , Arkansas , with his brother and Earl T. Ricks . The family moved to Hot Springs in 1950 . 
