1. Chelsea Clinton is the only child of former US President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, a former US Secretary of State and US Senator.
60 Facts About Chelsea Clinton
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Chelsea Clinton attended public schools there until her father was elected president and the family moved to the White House, when she began attending the private Sidwell Friends School.
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Chelsea Clinton received an undergraduate degree at Stanford University, later earning master's degrees from University of Oxford and Columbia University and a Doctor of Philosophy in international relations from the University of Oxford in 2014.
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In 2007 and 2008, Chelsea Clinton campaigned extensively on American college campuses for her mother's Democratic presidential nomination bid and introduced her at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
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Chelsea Clinton assumed a similar role in her mother's 2016 presidential campaign, making more than 200 public appearances as her surrogate and again introducing her at the Democratic National Convention.
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Chelsea Clinton serves on several boards, including the board of the Clinton Foundation.
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Chelsea Clinton has authored and co-authored best-selling children's non-fiction books and has co-authored a scholarly book for adults on global health policy.
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Chelsea Victoria Clinton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on February 27,1980.
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Chelsea Clinton is the only child of Hillary and Bill Clinton.
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Chelsea Clinton's name was inspired by a visit to the Chelsea neighborhood of London during a Christmas 1978 vacation.
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When Chelsea Clinton was two years old, she accompanied her parents as they campaigned throughout Arkansas for her father's gubernatorial race.
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Chelsea Clinton learned to read and write at a very young age.
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Chelsea Clinton attended Forest Park Elementary School, Booker Arts and Science Magnet Elementary School and Horace Mann Junior High School, both Little Rock public schools.
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In 1992, Chelsea Clinton's father was first elected president, and she remained active at school right until the family's move to Washington, playing the Ghost of Christmas Past in her school's production of A Christmas Carol and dancing in Little Rock's production of The Nutcracker.
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Chelsea Clinton moved into the White House with her parents and was given the Secret Service codename "Energy" on the day of her father's first inauguration in January 1993.
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Chelsea Clinton's parents wanted her to have a normal childhood, and they hoped to shield her from the media spotlight.
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Chelsea Clinton graduated from Sidwell in 1997; her father spoke at the graduation ceremony.
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Carol Wallace, Peoples managing editor, felt that Chelsea Clinton, then 19, was "an eyewitness to family drama and historical events" and thus "a valid journalistic subject".
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An adult group leader thought Chelsea Clinton to be "a terrific kid" and observed that she was treated as an equal in the group.
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At age four, Chelsea Clinton had begun taking dance classes in Arkansas, and she continued her dance training at the Washington School of Ballet for several years.
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Chelsea Clinton was cast in the role of the Favorite Aunt in the 1993 Washington Ballet production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker.
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Chelsea Clinton arrived at Stanford in a motorcade with her parents, Secret Service agents, and almost 250 journalists.
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Chelsea Clinton obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, with highest honors, at Stanford in 2001.
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Chelsea Clinton was criticized for those remarks in the London press and by the newspaper Oxford Student, whose editorial attacking her angered the university.
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At Oxford University in 2003, Chelsea Clinton completed a Master of Philosophy degree in international relations.
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Chelsea Clinton pursued Doctor of Philosophy coursework at New York University's Robert F Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
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In 2011, Chelsea Clinton transferred back to University College, Oxford, to complete her Doctor of Philosophy degree in International Relations.
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Chelsea Clinton stated that she took this step for the purpose of working with her preferred doctoral advisor, Ngaire Woods.
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Chelsea Clinton finished her dissertation in New York City and was awarded the degree in May 2014.
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Chelsea Clinton's dissertation was entitled The Global Fund: An Experiment in Global Governance.
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Chelsea Clinton received an award in 2012 from interfaith organization Temple of Understanding for her "work in advancing a new model of integrating interfaith and cross-cultural education into campus life", together with Imam Khalid Latif and Rabbi Yehuda Sarna.
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Chelsea Clinton began working for Avenue Capital Group in late 2006.
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Chelsea Clinton has served on the board of the School of American Ballet and on IAC's board of directors.
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In March 2017, Chelsea Clinton was named to the board of directors of Expedia Group.
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Chelsea Clinton is the co-founder of the Of Many Institute for Multifaith Leadership at NYU and serves as its co-chair.
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Chelsea Clinton received a three-month contract that allowed her to continue working for the Chelsea Clinton Foundation and to pursue her education.
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Chelsea Clinton began teaching graduate classes at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University in 2012.
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In 2020, Chelsea Clinton co-founded Metrodora Ventures, a venture capital fund.
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Since 2011, Chelsea Clinton has taken a prominent role at the family's Chelsea Clinton Foundation and has had a seat on its board.
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Chelsea Clinton served as co-chair for a fundraising week for the Foundation, subsequently becoming the foundation's Vice Chair.
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Chelsea Clinton focuses on early brain and language development through the Too Small to Fail initiative and supports female entrepreneurs through the Women in Renewable Energy Network.
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Chelsea Clinton has advocated for affordability and improved quality pediatric services for parents.
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In 2018, Chelsea Clinton wrote a companion book featuring women around the world entitled She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History.
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In 2019, Chelsea Clinton published her fifth children's book, Don't Let Them Disappear: 12 Endangered Species Across the Globe.
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Chelsea Clinton continued her children's "She Persisted" series in 2020 with She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game, published by Philomel.
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In 2019, Chelsea Clinton co-wrote a book with her mother, Hillary Chelsea Clinton, titled The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience and they embarked on a multi-city book tour together.
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In February 2024, Chelsea Clinton hosted a panel at Harvard Graduate School of Education on the topic of climate change and education, focusing on the role of educators in improving the lives of children affected by climate change.
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In December 2007, Chelsea Clinton began campaigning in Iowa in support of her mother's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Chelsea Clinton appeared across the country, largely on college campuses.
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Hillary Chelsea Clinton conceded the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama on June 7,2008.
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At the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Chelsea Clinton called Hillary "my hero and my mother" and introduced her with a long video tribute.
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At one appearance in September 2016, while answering a question about her mother's position supporting medical marijuana research, Chelsea Clinton got some attention for an inaccurate comment she made regarding drug interactions with marijuana; she walked back the comment a few days later, acknowledging that she misspoke.
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On November 9,2016, Hillary Chelsea Clinton conceded the presidential race to Republican candidate Donald Trump.
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Chelsea Clinton married investment banker Marc Mezvinsky on July 31,2010, in an interfaith ceremony at the Astor Courts estate in Rhinebeck, New York.
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Chelsea Clinton is portrayed in the 1996 film Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, where Butt-Head flirts with her at the White House; she responds by tossing him out a window.
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In Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, a Disney Channel Original Movie set in the year 2049, Chelsea Clinton is the President of the United States.
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In Clarissa Explains It All, the title character repeatedly imagines Chelsea Clinton becoming President of the United States.
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Chelsea Clinton is the direct inspiration for the 2004 film Chasing Liberty, starring Mandy Moore and Matthew Goode.
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In January 2015, Chelsea Clinton appeared in a Sesame Street skit with Elmo, advocating the importance of reading to young children.
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Chelsea Clinton appeared in the final scene of series 3 on the Channel 4 sitcom Derry Girls.