Best Known As: Political Figure

Gist:  Chelsea Victoria Clinton (born February 27, 1980) is the daughter and only child of former Arkansas Governor and U.S. President Bill Clinton and former United States Senator, First Lady and current United States Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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Clinton moved into the White House on the day of her father's first inauguration on January 20, 1993, when she was twelve years old. Chelsea's Secret Service cryptonym was Energy.

In Washington, D.C., she attended Sidwell Friends School. She was a National Merit Scholarship finalist in 1997. Having taken dance classes since she was four years old, Clinton began taking ballet courses at the Washington School of Ballet in 1993. She played the role of the Favorite Aunt and the Sugar Plum Fairy in the Washington Ballet's 1996 production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. Additionally, she was a chairperson on the board for the School of American Ballet. Clinton is also a veteran of the Model United Nations.

On February 5, 1999, just before the Senate vote on impeachment, People ran a cover story on Chelsea Clinton. The cover story irked the First Family, as well as the Secret Service.

She assumed some of her mother's White House hostess responsibilities when Hillary Clinton was running for the Senate in 2000, continuing until the end of her father's presidency on January 20, 2001.