Blythe WilliamJeffersonJr

American salesman of heavy equipment and the biological father of Bill Clinton. Blythe died three months before his son was born. Blythe was married five times and had two children, Henry Leon Ritzenthaler (1938–2009) and Sharon Lee Pettijohn (b. 1941), before Bill was born in 1946. On 17 May 1946, while traveling from Chicago, Illinois, to Hope, Arkansas, Blythe lost control of his 1942 Buick on U.S. Route 60 outside of Sikeston, Missouri, after one of his cars tires blew out. He survived the accident after being thrown from the car, but drowned in a drainage ditch as he tried to pull his way out of the three feet (1 metre) of water in the ditch. Three months later, Blythes widow, Virginia, gave birth to their son, whom she named William Jefferson Blythe III in honor of his father and grandfather. In 1950, Blythes widow married Roger Clinton Sr.; 12 years later, Blythes posthumous son legally adopted his stepfathers surname. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less