BORN: Oct. 26, 1947, at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago

EDUCATION: Maine East and South High Schools, Park Ridge, graduated 1965; Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., graduated 1969 (major: political science); Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn., graduated 1973.

POLITICAL CAREER: First lady of Arkansas, 1979-81 and 1983-92; first lady of the United States, 1993-2001; U.S. senator from New York, 2001-present.

OTHER JOBS: Staff attorney, Children's Defense Fund, 1973; staff attorney, impeachment inquiry staff, U.S. House Judiciary Committee, 1974; law professor, University of Arkansas -- Fayetteville, 1974-76; attorney and partner, Rose Law Firm, Little Rock, Ark., 1977-92.

FAMILY: Husband, William Jefferson Clinton; daughter, Chelsea.

RELIGION: Methodist

FAMOUS PET: Socks the cat

ALLERGIC TO: Cats

POLITICAL HEROINE: Eleanor Roosevelt

MEMORABLE LINES: "It takes a village"; "Vast right-wing conspiracy"; "I'm not some Tammy Wynette standing by my man"; "I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas."

FAMOUS NEIGHBOR: Future actor Harrison Ford lived around the corner from her childhood home in Park Ridge.

EMBARRASSING MOMENTS: Sang "Bye Bye Birdie" at Maine East variety show and was told to lip synch; discovered her husband did actually have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.

FIRSTS: If elected, would be first woman and first Chicago-born president.

DIE-HARD FAN OF The Cubs. No, the Yankees. How 'bout those Mets?