Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. She served as the 67th United States Secretary of State in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2013. Prior to that role, she represented New York as a U.S. Senator from 2001 to 2009. Clinton served as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the wife of President Bill Clinton. She is the only First Lady to have run for or held elected office. A member of the Democratic Party, Clinton was the party's nominee in the 2016 presidential election. She became the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party and the only woman to win the popular vote for U.S. president. She lost the Electoral College vote to Republican nominee Donald Trump.