PHOTO GALLERY: Bill Clinton through the years

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Today marks former President Bill Clinton’s birthday, and there were plenty of well-wishes to go around on Twitter.

And in case you haven’t seen it, Kevin Spacey, or should we say Frank Underwood, even got in on the action.

Here’s a look back at No. 42 through the years:

Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton (right), with Ald. Bobby L. Rush at the University of Illinois at Chicago, signs up Chicago political celebrities as delegates supporting his Democratic presidential bid on Jan. 13, 1992.  |  Sun-Times 


Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton speaks with his daughter Chelsea,12, before a rally in Hot Springs, Arkansas, on Sept. 6, 1992.  |  AP


President Bill Clinton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson enjoy listening to 13-year-old Joshua Watts sing “I Believe I Can Fly” at Englewood High School during a presidential visit to draw attention to neighborhoods that have not enjoyed the economic prosperity.  |  Sun-Times


Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, wife Hillary Rodham Clinton and week-old baby daughter Chelsea pose for a family picture on March 5, 1980.  |  AP


President Bill Clinton smiles as he looks at his birthday cake with Democratic National party co-chair Sen. Wyche Fowler (right) at the Sheraton hotel on Aug. 18, 1996 in New York. President Clinton was in New York to celebrate his 50th birthday and to raise $8 million for Democrats.  |  AP


President Clinton reaches out to shake hands with Vietnamese well-wishers from the balcony of a building across the street from the Temple of Literature in Hanoi, on Nov. 17, 2000. Clinton was the first U.S. president to visit Vietnam since the war, more than a quarter century ago. |  AP


South African President Nelson Mandela and President Clinton peer out from Section B, prison cell No. 5, on Robben Island, South Africa, on March 27, 1998. Mandela spent 18 years of his 27-year prison term on the island.  |  AP


Former President Bill Clinton prepares to speak on the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter on July 26, 2004, in Boston, Massachusetts.  |  Getty Images


Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., accompanied by her husband, former President Bill Clinton, daughter Chelsea Clinton, and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 3, 2008.  |  AP 


Former President Bill Clinton walks daughter Chelsea down the isle for her wedding in Rhinebeck, New York, on July 31, 2010.  |  AP 


Vice President Al Gore applauds after President Clinton signs a bill designating 1.7 million acres of land in southern Utah’s red-rock cliff as the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument on Sept. 18, 1996, at the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.  |  AP 

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