The mother of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Dorothy Rodham, has died at the age of 92. Dorothy Rodham born in Chicago in June 1919, she died shortly after midnight on 1 November in Washington DC.
Mrs Clinton cancelled a trip to London and Istanbul when informed that her mother had fallen ill. Dorothy Rodham spent her final days at the city’s George Washington University Hospital. According to Mrs Clinton’s autobiography, Mrs Rodham was eight when her parents divorced in 1927. She was sent to live with her paternal grandparents in California.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Dorothy Rodham
She left home at 14 to be a mother’s helper, Mrs Clinton wrote, and reunited briefly with her mother after she graduated high school. Mrs Clinton has often said her mother inspired her by overcoming abandonment in her early life and encouraging the future first lady, New York senator and secretary of state to pursue an education and a career.