William Jefferson "Bill" Blythe, Jr. (February 27, 1918 – May 17, 1946) was an Arkansas salesman of heavy equipment and the biological father of former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
Blythe was born as one of nine children to William Jefferson Blythe, Sr. (1884–1935), a poor farmer in Sherman, Texas, and his wife, the former Lou Birchie Ayers (1893–1946). In December 1935, shortly before his eighteenth birthday, he married Virginia Adele Gash. They...
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William Jefferson "Bill" Blythe, Jr. (February 27, 1918 – May 17, 1946) was an Arkansas salesman of heavy equipment and the biological father of former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
Blythe was born as one of nine children to William Jefferson Blythe, Sr. (1884–1935), a poor farmer in Sherman, Texas, and his wife, the former Lou Birchie Ayers (1893–1946). In December 1935, shortly before his eighteenth birthday, he married Virginia Adele Gash. They divorced within 13 months. They had one son, Henry Leon Blythe, on January 17, 1938, who was conceived after their divorce. Henry later took the surname of his stepfather, Charles Ritzenthaler, after Gash and Blythe divorced.
On December 29, 1940, Blythe married his first wife's sister, Minnie Faye Gash. The marriage was annulled in April 1941. On May 3, 1941, he married for a third time in Jackson County, Missouri, to Wanetta Ellen Alexander of Kansas City who was carrying his child while he was married to Faye. Their child, Sharon Lee...
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