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They are both household names in the US - one a fabulously wealthy businessman and the other one half of one of America's best-known political families.

While they are both looking to become the 45th President of America in November, here is a look at how the two families got themselves to the verge of the White House.

:: The Clintons

Bill and Hillary have already been in the White House of course, during his two terms as the 42nd US President between 1993 and 2001.

Mrs Clinton is looking to "shatter the ultimate glass ceiling" to become America's first female US president after dedicating her life to public service.

Hillary Clinton

Born on 26 October, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois, Hillary Diane Rodham was the eldest daughter of Hugh Ellsworth Rodham and Dorothy Emma Howell.

Her father, who died in 1993, ran a successful small business in the textile industry and her mother was a housewife as she grew up in Park Ridge.

Mrs Clinton has two younger brothers - Hugh and Anthony - and was brought up as a conservative, spending some of her teenage years volunteering to help Republican candidates.

In 1965, she enrolled at Wellesley College where she majored in political science and began her first steps in her political career.

She graduated with a BA in 1969 and became the first student at the college to speak at the commencement, where her criticism of speaker Senator Brooke earned her national coverage in Life magazine.

Mrs Clinton then went on to Yale Law School, where she met Bill and earned her Juris Doctor degree in 1973.

Now a staunch Democrat, she turned down two marriage proposals from Bill over his political ambitions, but ultimately "chose to follow my heart instead of my head" and followed him to Arkansas in 1974, where she became a faculty member at the School of Law at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

They married in 1975 and moved to Little Rock, but Hillary kept her name, Rodham. She joined a law firm in 1977 and maintained her interest in children's law and family policy.

Their only child, Chelsea Clinton, was born in Little Rock on 27 February, 1980, while Bill was serving his first term as Governor of Arkansas.

After Bill was elected as US President in 1992, she served as First Lady for eight years before running for the vacant US Senate seat in New York in 1999.

Mrs Clinton beat popular Republican Rick Lazio by 55% to 43%, becoming the first First Lady to win public office and the first woman elected to the US Senate from New York. She won re-election in November 2006.

Two years later, she ran for the Democratic nomination but was beaten by Barack Obama, who then appointed her as US Secretary of State. She held that office between January 2009 and 2013.

In 2015, she again announced her decision to run for the Democratic nomination, becoming the first woman in US history to become a presidential nominee for a major political party this year.

Bill Clinton

Born on 19 August, 1946, William Jefferson Blythe IV was raised in Arkansas.

He was the son of travelling salesman William Jefferson Blythe III, who was killed three months before his son's birth on 17 May 1946 in an accident after his car rolled over and landed upside down.

Mr Blythe is thought to have survived the crash, but drowned after falling into a drainage ditch as he went for help.

His mother Virginia Dell Cassidy was a nurse. The couple were married, but this later proved to be bigamous as Mr Blythe was still married to his previous wife.

Virginia married a car salesman - Roger Clinton - on 19 June, 1950. They moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas, where they had a son - Bill Clinton's half brother Roger.

His mother divorced Roger Clinton when Bill was 15, but remarried in 1962 and despite his initial reticence Bill then legally changed his last name to Clinton to honour the relationship.

Roger Clinton died of cancer in 1968. Bill's mother married Jeff Dwire, and then Richard Kelley after Mr Dwire died in 1974.

She died from breast cancer on 6 January, 1994.

Bill attended Georgetown University, where he got a BSc in Foreign Service at the school of foreign service in Washington DC.

After graduating, he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford, where he studied PPE but did not receive a degree.

Following that, he went to Yale Law School where he met Hillary in 1971.

in 1976, he ran for Arkansas Attorney General and was elected virtually unopposed.

Two years later, he was elected as Governor of Arkansas, beating Republican Lynn Lowe, and becoming the youngest governor in the US at just 32.

He lost the governorship in 1981, but was re-elected again and held the position between 1983 and 1992.

In 1992, Bill Clinton halted three consecutive Republican landslide victories to beat incumbent George HW Bush in the presidential election.

Mr Clinton won a comfortable victory, securing 370 of the Electoral College votes.

During his first term in office, he signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) - ending virtually all the trade barriers between the US, Canada and Mexico and creating the world's largest free trade zone.

He was re-elected in 1996, beating Senator Bob Dole to become the first Democratic President since Franklin Roosevelt to win a second term.

But he was caught up as news emerged that he may have had a sexual relationship with former White House intern Monica LewinAG百家乐在线官网 and he was the subject of a federal civil lawsuit by former Arkansas state employee Paula Corbin Jones which accused him of "persistent and continuous" unwanted sexual advances at a conference in 1991 while he was governor of the state.

The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Clinton in 1998 on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice over the alleged relationship. President Clinton agreed to pay Paula Corbin Jones $850,000 to settle the lawsuit.

He was acquitted in 1999, and apologised to America for the ordeal.

After completing his second term in 2001, he left office with the highest approval rating of any US President since World War Two.

Since then he has remained active in politics, campaigning regularly for Democratic candidates including his wife, and is heavily involved in the Clinton Foundation which he set up in 1997.

Chelsea Clinton

Born on 27 February, 1980, in Little Rock, Chelsea is Hillary and Bill Clinton's only daughter.

Thrust immediately into the limelight after her father's election to the White House, Chelsea was removed from public school and privately educated as her parents attempted to keep her out of the public eye.

Chelsea attended Stanford University in 1997, where she majored in history. During her college years, bullet-proof glass was installed in her dorm windows and cameras were placed in hallways.

Members of the Secret Service also dressed as students and lived in her dorm.

She graduated in 2001 with a BA in history, and went on to study a Masters at University College, Oxford, in international relations.

She returned to Oxford in 2011 to complete a doctorate of philosophy in the same subject.

In 2012, she began teaching at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

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The couple live in Manhattan. Their daughter, Charlotte, was born in September 2014 and their son Aidan was born in June this year.

:: The Trumps

Donald Trump may never have held political office in the US, but he is a well-known figure thanks to his real estate dealings, entertainment properties and the "Trump" brand.

The billionaire businessman - listed by Forbes as the 324th wealthiest person in the world - has built an empire of apartment buildings, hotels, casinos and golf courses across the world.

The Donald

Born on 14 June, 1946, in Queens, New York, Donald Trump was raised in the city and brought up to take over his father's real estate and construction firm.

He is the second youngest of five children to Mary and Fred Trump. Three of his siblings - Maryanne, Elizabeth and Robert - are still alive, but his older brother Fred Jr died in 1981 from alcoholism.

Elizabeth Trump is a former Chase banker; Maryanne is a retired judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Robert served as a top executive in the family business.

Fred Trump was born in New York and became one of the biggest real estate developers in the city. His mother Mary was born in Scotland.

They met in New York and married in 1936.

Donald Trump left school at the age of 13 and enrolled in the New York Military Academy.

He was not drafted during the Vietnam War, obtaining four student deferments while in college from 1964 to 1968 and being granted a 1-Y medical deferment in 1968 apparently due to heel spurs.

He received a BA in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 and took over control of his father's company three years later, renaming it The Trump Organization.

Once in charge of the family company, he moved it to Manhattan and has built a number of properties including the 58-storey Trump Tower.

His business dealings have seen him acquire hotels around the world, including the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, where he stages many of his campaign rallies.

After his father died in 1999, he and his siblings received an equal portion of his estate, worth around $250m to $300m.

As of this year, Forbes has estimated his net worth to be around $3.7bn.

Mr Trump owns a number of entertainment properties - including Miss Universe, Miss USA and the Miss Teen USA beauty pageants up until 2015 - and was the host on the popular reality TV show The Apprentice in the US between 2004 and 2015.

He also set up the now defunct Trump University, which aimed to give training in real estate, property management and wealth acquisition, 

Among The Trump Organization estate is the Turnberry golf course in Ayrshire, Scotland, and several building complexes in Manhattan, 

During his campaign for the US presidency, Mr Trump has established his credentials as an "outside" candidate.

But he has raised the idea of running for president before - in 2004 and 2012 - and has also considered running for New York Governor in 2006 and 2014.

He also attempted to campaign for the Reform Party presidential nomination in 2000, but dropped out before the primaries began.

His organisation is very much a family-run affair, with nearly all of his five children working in various roles.

Mr Trump has been married three times.

His first wife, model Ivana Zelnickova, was the first to call him "The Donald".

They married in 1977 in Manhattan and had three children - Donald Jr, Ivanka and Eric. The couple divorced in 1990.

He married his second wife, actress Marla Marples, in 1993 and the couple had one daughter, Tiffany. They were divorced in 1999.

Mr Trump began a relationship with Slovenian model Melania Knauss in 1998. They married in 2005 and have one son, Barron, who was born in March 2006.

Donald Jr

A father-of-five, the 38-year-old followed in his father's footsteps at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his degree in finance and real estate.

Donald Jr went to work for his father in 2001 and is an executive vice president of the Trump Organization.

Ivanka

A former fashion model, Ivanka is executive vice president of acquisitions and development for the Trump Organization.

The 35-year-old launched her own jewellery brand - Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry - before joining the family business. She also has her own line of fashion.

She is married to publishing scion Jared Kushner, and they have two children. Ivanka converted to Orthodox Judaism before marrying Jared in 2009.

Eric

Eric Trump went straight to work for his father after graduating from Georgetown University.

He is also an executive vice president of the Trump Organization, owns and operates the Trump Winery and oversees his father's 18 golf clubs.

Eric is married to Lara Yunaska, TV producer.

Tiffany

Tiffany is Donald Trump's only child with Marla Marples and was raised by the actress in Los Angeles.

She is currently studying at the University of Pennsylvania.

Barron

Barron is the youngest of Donald Trump's children, and lives on his own floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan, with the tycoon and his third wife Melania. He is 10.