Rodham briefly worked for his mother's employer, Scranton Lace Company,[7] then freighthopped to Chicago without telling his parents.
[4] Rodham found work there selling drapery fabrics around the Midwest, sending the money he made back home.
Hoping to work his way into favor with the Cook County Democratic Party political machine in order to capitalize on a downtown investment he had made, he ran for Chicago alderman as a Democratic-leaning independent in 1947.
[6] Rodham was a staunch supporter of Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign and remained a committed Republican until his death.
[4] The family still maintained ties to Scranton: all three children were christened there, and they spent summers in a rural region that overlooks Lake Winola, located in Overfield Township in the Endless Mountains area of Pennsylvania.
[12] Hugh Rodham died in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Wednesday, April 7, 1993, five days after his 82nd birthday, three weeks after suffering a stroke,[11] and less than three months after his son-in-law Bill Clinton's inauguration as 42nd President of the United States.