Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...
served as the
42nd
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president of the United States
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from 1993 to 2001. Before that, he was the
governor of Arkansas, and afterwards he has continued life in the public eye.
He received many awards and honors throughout his career.
National honors
Foreign honors
Scholastic
; Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships
;Honorary degrees
Other awards and honors
Multiple schools have been named after Clinton, and many statues in his honor have been erected, including one in
Kosovo
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.
["The statue portrays the former president with his left arm raised while holding documents bearing the date when Nato started its air campaign against Yugoslavia - 24 March 1999." ] The
Clinton Presidential Center
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was opened in
Little Rock, Arkansas
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in his honor on December 5, 2001.
He has been honored in various other ways, in countries that include
the Czech Republic, New Guinea,
Germany, and
Kosovo.
U.S. states where he has been honored include Missouri,
Arkansas, Kentucky,
and New York.
In 1993, Clinton was selected as
Time
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magazine's "
Man of the Year", and again in 1998, along with
Ken Starr. From a poll conducted of the American people in December 1999, Clinton was among eighteen included in
Gallup's List of Widely Admired People of the 20th century.
In 2000,
Princeton University
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's
American Whig-Cliosophic Society
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** American ancestry, p ...
awarded him the
James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service. In 2001, Clinton received the
NAACP's
President's Award.
In 2004, he received a
Grammy Award
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for
Best Spoken Word Album for Children for narrating the
Russian National Orchestra
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's album ''
Wolf Tracks and Peter and the Wolf'' (along with
Mikhail Gorbachev and
Sophia Loren) and 2005
Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for ''My Life''. In 2005, he received the
J. William Fulbright
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Prize for International Understanding, and 2007
TED
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Education
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Prize (named for the confluence of technology, entertainment and design).
In 2005 he received the
Freedom Medal of the Four Freedoms Award.
On June 2, 2007, Clinton, along with former president George H.W. Bush, received the International Freedom Conductor Award, for their help with the fund raising following the tsunami that devastated South Asia in 2004. On June 13, 2007, Clinton was honored by the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria alongside eight multinational-companies for his work to defeat HIV/AIDS.
On September 9, 2008, Bill Clinton was named as the next chairman of the
National Constitution Center
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in
Philadelphia
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,
Pennsylvania
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. His term began January 1, 2009, and he succeeded former President George H. W. Bush.
On March 15, 2011, Bill Clinton was inducted into
Irish America magazine
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's
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for his crucial role in the Northern Ireland Peace Process.
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"Politician, Peacemaker, and Hero to Millions of Irish"
, ''Irish America magazine
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'', March 10, 2011. Accessed March 22, 2011. "As a major supporter of the Irish peace process, Bill Clinton moved mountains."
In 2012, a fish species was named after him, the
beaded darter (''Etheostoma clinton''), for his lasting environmental accomplishments in creating and expanding national monuments, preserving millions of acres of wilderness areas, his leadership and commitment during challenging economic times, and his continued commitment to global humanitarian issues and needs and peace.
In April 2013, Bill Clinton was named the inaugural recipient of the honorary
Advocate for Change GLAAD Media Award for his record of promoting tolerance of the LGBT community, including advocating for
marriage equality
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in New York in 2011, advocating against
Amendment 1 in North Carolina in 2012, and calling for the Supreme Court of the United States to strike down the
Defense of Marriage Act
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in 2013.
In March 2015,
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...
was listed among the 10 recipients of the maiden edition of Global Seal of Integrity (GSOI) Honors list. An annual list by two young Nigerians, dedicated at promoting trust and honesty for the well-being of the universe.
In March 2018,
Belfast City Council
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voted in favour of awarding Bill Clinton, the
Freedom of
Belfast
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, due to his work during the
Northern Ireland Peace Process
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.
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