Hugh Rodham (born 1911)

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Hugh Rodham
Born
Hugh Ellsworth Rodham

(1911-04-02)April 2, 1911
Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedApril 7, 1993(1993-04-07) (aged 82)
Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
Resting placeWashburn Street Cemetery
Alma materPennsylvania State University (BS)
OccupationBusinessman
Political partyRepublican
Spouse
Dorothy Howell
​
(m. 1942)​
Children
Relatives

Hugh Ellsworth Rodham (April 2, 1911 – April 7, 1993) was an American businessman. He was the father of Hillary Clinton.

Early life and education

Hugh Ellsworth Rodham born on April 2, 1911, in

coal miner parents.[1][3][4][5]

Rodham attended Pennsylvania State University and was a third-string tight end for the Penn State Nittany Lions football team.[6] He joined the Delta Upsilon[4] He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education[4] from the College of Education in 1935, at the height of the Great Depression.

Career

Rodham briefly worked for his mother's employer,

fabrics around the Midwest, sending the money he made back home.[4]

In

window shades; customers included offices, hotels, airlines, and theaters.[6] He later opened a fabric print plant building on the North Side.[4] During the 1940s, Rodham and his wife Dorothy lived in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago.[8]

Rodham entered politics once. Hoping to work his way into favor with the

independent in 1947.[6] The contest, held in Chicago's 49th Ward, was won by Frank Keenan, a Democratic ward committeeman running on the regular Democratic line, with 17,073 votes; a Republican, Joseph Reubens, finished second with 5,509 votes.[9] Rodham finished fifth out of eight candidates with only 382 votes, or 1.5 percent of the total votes cast.[9] According to some family members, this episode led to his strong dislike of the Democratic Party for the rest of his life.[6]

Rodham was a staunch supporter of

Republican until his death. Even after his daughter married Democrat Bill Clinton, he (according to Bill Clinton) "never gave up hope that his son-in-law would join him in the Republican Party and support a cut in the capital gains tax."[10] In late 1992, following son-in-law Bill Clinton's election as president, Rodham made a cameo appearance on the television comedy Hearts Afire, whose producers were friends of the Clintons.[11]

Personal life

In 1937, while Rodham was making a sales call at a textile company, he met

Hugh (born 1950), and Tony (1954–2019). In 1950, they moved to the more affluent Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois.[4] The family still maintained ties to Scranton: all three children were christened there, and they spent summers in a rural region that overlooks Lake Winola, located in Overfield Township in the Endless Mountains area of Pennsylvania.[4][7] staying in a cottage that in 1921, Hugh and his father had built themselves.[12]

Death

Hugh Rodham died in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Wednesday, April 7, 1993, five days after his 82nd birthday, three weeks after suffering a stroke,[11] and less than three months after his son-in-law Bill Clinton's inauguration as 42nd President of the United States. Following a private memorial service in Little Rock attended by the Clintons, he was buried in the Washburn Street Cemetery in his native Scranton, Pennsylvania, in a private funeral also attended by the Clinton family.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b Roberts, Gary Boyd. "Notes on the Ancestry of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton". New England Historic Genealogical Society. Archived from the original on June 7, 2013. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
  2. ^ Gavin Havery, Hillary Clinton: From North-East mining stock to American presidential candidate dated 27 April 2017 at thenorthernecho.co.uk
  3. ^ Smolenyak, Megan (April–May 2015). "Hillary Clinton's Celtic Roots". Irish America.
  4. ^
    ISBN 0-7432-2224-5
    . pp. 4–9.
  5. ^ Anna Mikhailova (2006-06-25). "Hillary traces roots to Durham". The Sunday Times. London. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
  6. ^
    ISBN 978-0-375-40766-6
    . pp. 16–18.
  7. ^ a b c "Reader Q&A;". The Times-Tribune. June 19, 2007. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved July 12, 2007.
  8. ^ Hanson, Cynthia (September 1994). "I Was a Teenage Republican". Chicago Magazine. Archived from the original on 2020-09-30. Retrieved 2016-10-27.
  9. ^
    ISBN 978-1-62619-143-3. See also "Edgewater Teaser #18"
    . Edgewater Historical Society. Spring 2013.
  10. ^ The Rodham Family Biography, AllPolitics, CNN.com, 1996.
  11. ^ a b c Pace, Eric (1993-04-08). "Hugh Rodham Dies After Stroke; Father of Hillary Clinton Was 82". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
  12. ^ Larry King (2008-03-08). "Sen. Hillary Clinton's girlhood home (sort of)". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on 2008-03-12. Retrieved 2008-03-14.

External links

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