The 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, the 67th United States Secretary of State, was announced by means of a YouTube video, on April 12, 2015. The wife of former President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton was the United States Senator from New York prior to serving as Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, an office she held from 2009 until 2013. The runner-up in the 2008 Democratic primaries, her candidacy in the 2016 election is her second bid for the presidency.