Billionaire businessman Donald Trump is the Republican Party’s nominee for president, following his unorthodox and colorful primary campaign to win the party's nomination. Now, Trump will face the Democratic presidential contender, former senator and secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, who is married to former President Bill Clinton. That Trump, a businessman with no political experience, became his party's presidential candidate is unprecedented in modern American politics.
In Pictures: Donald Trump Through the Years

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Happy parents Marla Maples, left, and Donald Trump greet the press with their newborn daughter, Tiffany, as they leave St. Mary's Hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Thurs., Oct. 14, 1993. (AP Photo/Hans Deryk)

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Donald Trump and wife, Marla Maples, are shown in this Aug. 23, 1994 photo. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

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Developer Donald Trump poses for photos outside the New York Stock Exchange after the listing of his stock on Wed., June 7, 1995 in New York. He took his flagship Trump Plaza Casino public, offering 10 million shares of common stock at an estimated price

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Donald Trump, the New York developer, poses in his Manhattan office beside a copy of his new book, "Trump: The Art of the Comeback." Trump has been promoting the book, in which he tells how he returned from near bankruptcy to a personal net worth estimate