Bill Clinton is a citizen.
Bill Clinton . Prior to the Presidency he was the 40th Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and the state 's 42nd Governor from 1983 to 1992 . Clinton was born and raised in Arkansas and is an alumnus of Georgetown University , where he was a member of Kappa Kappa Psi and the Phi Beta Kappa Society ; he earned a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford . As Governor of Arkansas , Clinton overhauled the state 's education system and served as chairman of the National Governors Association . Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history and signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement .