Bill Clinton's father was William Jefferson Blythe Jr. He was born on the 27th of February 1918 and died of an automobile accident on the 17th of May 1946. Besides Bill Clinton he had two other children: a daughter Sharon Le Blythe and a son Henry Leon Ritzenthaler.

His parents were William Jefferson Blythe II and Lou Birchie Ayers. His father was a poor farmer who lived in Sherman, Texas. His siblings and he were nine children in all.

He was married a number of times starting from the age of seventeen. The Presidents wife was actually his fourth wife; a fact she learned fifty years after his death.

During the Second World War he had been sent to Egypt and then to Italy as part of his military service. His fourth and last wife and the mother of the President is buried next to him at Rose Hill Cemetery.