WASHINGTON – The gravestone of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s father, Hugh Rodham, was found to be toppled Wednesday in a cemetery in Pennsylvania, a possible case of vandalism that police are investigating.Scranton police chief Carl Graziano told the local press that someone at the cemetery reported that the marker was tipped over Tuesday, saying that possibly vandals had disturbed it and adding that he is “not sure how else it would have fallen over.”
Rodham, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, owned a small textile business and was buried there in 1993 after dying of a heart attack in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Paul McGloin, a caretaker at the Washburn Street Cemetery, told local media that he hoped the incident had nothing to do with politics.
The gravestone had been pushed over from its original position but was apparently otherwise undamaged, with no graffiti or anything else on it, authorities said.
Clinton, a former first lady and New York senator, in addition to serving as secretary of state, announced last Sunday that she was running for president for the second time, after being defeated for the Democratic nomination by Barack Obama in 2008.
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