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    Madeleine Albright

    United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001

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  1. Her father, diplomat Josef Korbel, settled the family in Denver, Colorado, and she became a U.S. citizen in 1957. [5] [6] Albright graduated from Wellesley College in 1959 and earned a PhD from Columbia University in 1975, writing her thesis on the Prague Spring. [7] .

  2. Mar 24, 2022 · Born Marie Jana Korbelova in Prague, Madeleine Albright was previously married to Joseph Medill Patterson Albright, whose family owned a large newspaper corporation, according to The Washington Post. The couple had three daughters: twins Anne and Alice, followed by Katherine five years later.

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  3. Mar 23, 2022 · WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) - Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War Two then rose to become the first female U.S. secretary of state...

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    • Diane Bartz
  4. Mar 23, 2022 · Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as the U.S. secretary of state, died Wednesday, her family said in a statement. She was 84. Albright died of cancer, her family said, adding...

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    • Dareh Gregorian
  5. Mar 23, 2022 · Madeleine K. Albright, a child of Czech refugees who fled from Nazi invaders and Communist oppressors and then landed in the United States, where she flourished as a diplomat and the first...

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    • Robert D. McFadden
  6. Mar 23, 2022 · Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Madeleine Albright, the first woman to be U.S. secretary of state, has died, according to a statement from her family. Albright was 84, and the cause of death was...

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  8. Mar 23, 2022 · Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state, died Wednesday from cancer at age 84, according to her family. Albright was nominated for secretary of state by President Bill Clinton and served in the role from 1997 to 2001. She was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997.

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