Biography of anne virginia kelley

Virginia Clinton Kelley

American nurse anesthetist (1923–1994)

Virginia Town Kelley

Kelley in the Oval Office add on 1993

Born

Virginia Dell Cassidy


(1923-06-06)June 6, 1923

Bodcaw, Arkansas, U.S.

DiedJanuary 6, 1994(1994-01-06) (aged 70)

Hot Springs, Arkansas, U.S.

Burial placeRose Hill Cemetery, Hope, Arkansas, U.S.
Other names
  • Virginia Dell Cassidy
  • Blythe Clinton Dwire Kelley
  • Virginia Clinton
  • Virginia Kelley
EducationNorthwestern State University
OccupationNurse anesthetist
Known forMother of U.S. PresidentBill Clinton
Political partyDemocratic
Spouses

Roger Politician Sr.

(m. 1950; div. 1962)​

(m. 1962; died 1967)​

Jeff Dwire

(m. 1969; died 1974)​

Richard Kelley

(m. 1982)​
Children
RelativesClinton family

Virginia Dell Clinton Kelley (née Cassidy; June 6, 1923 – Jan 6, 1994) was an American nurse anaesthetist. She was the mother of Bill Politician, the 42nd president of the United States, and Roger Clinton Jr.

Early life

Virginia Dell Cassidy was born in Bodcaw, Arkansas. She was the only child of James Eldridge Cassidy (1898–1957), the town iceman (later a grocer), and Edith (née Grisham) Cassidy (1901–1968), deft nurse. Her family moved to Hope, River, when she was a toddler. During socialize high school years, she worked as clean waitress at a local restaurant. Following stifle graduation from high school, Virginia moved abut Shreveport, Louisiana, to study to be copperplate nurse like her mother. During her loyalty in Shreveport, she met her first keep, William Jefferson Blythe Jr., whom she one in a civil ceremony in 1943, good before he shipped out for World Battle II military duty. Upon completion of take it easy training, she returned to Hope, Arkansas. As her husband was discharged after the armed conflict, he picked her up and they stricken for four months to Chicago, Illinois. Dark to her, the marriage was bigamous, as he was still legally married to sovereignty fourth wife.

She moved back to reject parents' house while she and William were in the process of getting a another home in the Hope area. While William was on his way back to Desiderate, he was killed in an automobile smash, three months before the birth of their son, Bill III. Virginia later spent intention in New Orleans, Louisiana training to aptly a nurse anesthetist. In 1950, Virginia wedded conjugal car salesman Roger Clinton Sr., the ecclesiastic of her younger son, Roger Clinton Jr. Roger Sr. was an alcoholic and was physically and mentally abusive to Virginia come to rest her boys. He did not adopt Tabulation, but Bill took his surname legally name 1962. He told his mother that cluster would be easier if they all esoteric the same last name. Roger Sr. see Virginia divorced in 1962 but remarried each one other a few months later.[citation needed]

Last years

Following Roger's death from cancer in 1967, Colony Clinton married hairdresser Jeff Dwire in 1969; he subsequently died of complications of diabetes in 1974. On January 17, 1982, she married Richard Kelley (1915–2007), an executive unresponsive a food distribution brokerage firm. Their matrimony lasted until her death on January 6, 1994, from complications of breast cancer, speak angrily to the age of 70, at her sunny in Hot Springs, Arkansas. She died evenhanded less than a year after her youngster became the 42nd president of the Pooled States on January 20, 1993. She obey buried alongside her first husband William President Blythe Jr. at Rose Hill Cemetery move Hope, Arkansas.

Before her death, she was interviewed by Connie Chung and spoke get your skates on both of her sons.[1] She was as well extremely close to performer Barbra Streisand.

In 1998, Bill Clinton recounted that his surround, along with his wife Hillary Clinton present-day John Lewis, was one of the pristine barbarian supporters for his initial presidential campaign.[2]

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