Bill Clinton (born August 19, 1946) served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001, after a career as Arkansas's attorney general and governor. Elected in 1992 as a "New Democrat," he became the first Baby Boomer president and presided over the longest peacetime economic expansion in U.S. history, signing major laws like NAFTA, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, and welfare reform, while also appointing Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer to the Supreme Court. In foreign policy, he intervened in the Bosnian and Kosovo wars, expanded NATO eastward, and worked on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, including the Oslo I Accord. After winning re-election in 1996, his second term was overshadowed by his affair with Monica Lewinsky, leading to his impeachment by the House in December 1998 on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, though he was acquitted by the Senate in February 1999. He left office in 2001 with the joint-highest approval rating of any president, and his tenure saw the first budget surplus since 1969, with his presidency consistently ranking highly in historical assessments.