Hugh Rodham
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Hugh Rodham was Hillary Clinton’s father and a lifelong Republican.
Born to [[English] immigrant parents in Pennsylvania, Mr. Rodham sought a better life than toiling in the Scranton coal mines, and attended Penn State University. He then began what was to prove to be a very successful career in the textile industry.
Raising his children in the affluent Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, IL, Mr. Rodham was a staunch supporter of Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign and remained a committed Republican until his death in 1993.
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."
