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Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright [1] (born Marie Jana Körbelová, later Korbelová; May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022) [2] [3] was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first woman to hold that post.
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May 11, 2024 · Madeleine Albright (born May 15, 1937, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now in the Czech Republic]—died March 23, 2022, Washington, D.C., U.S.) was a Czech-born American public official who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (1993–97) and who was the first woman to hold the cabinet post of U.S. secretary of state (1997–2001).
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Mar 8, 2024 · Madeleine Albright became the first woman to represent the United States in foreign affairs as the Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton. By Biography.com Editors Updated: Mar 8,...
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Madeleine Albright was born Marie Jana Korbel on May 15, 1937, in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Josef Korbel, a Czech diplomat, and Anna (Spieglová) Korbel. In 1939 the family fled to England after the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia. Not until 1997 did she learn that her family was Jewish and that three of her grandparents had died in German concentrat...
After receiving a master’s degree in political science from New York’s Columbia University in 1968, Albright worked as a fundraiser for Sen. Edmund Muskie during his failed 1972 presidential campaign and later served as Muskie’s chief legislative aide. In 1976, she received a Ph.D. from Columbia while working for President Jimmy Carter’snational se...
The American public first began to recognize Albright as a rising political star in February 1993, when Democratic President Bill Clinton appointed her U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Her time at the U.N. was highlighted by a tense relationship with U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali over the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Criticizing Boutr...
On December 5, 1996, President Clinton nominated Albright to succeed Warren Christopher as U.S. Secretary of State. Her nomination was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on January 23, 1997, and she was sworn in the next day. She became the first female U.S. Secretary of State and at the time, the highest-ranking woman in U.S. government history. ...
Madeleine Albright left government service at the end of President Clinton’s second term in 2001 and founded the Albright Group, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm specializing in analyzing the effects of government and politics on businesses. In both 2008 and 2016, Albright actively supported Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns. During ...
“Biography: Madeleine Korbel Albright.”Office of the US Secretary of State.Scott, A.O. “Madeleine Albright: The Diplomat Who Mistook Her Life for Statecraft.”Slate (April 25, 1999).Dallaire Roméo. “Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda.”Carroll & Graf, Jan 1, 2005. ISBN 0615708897.“Albright’s Personal Odyssey Shaped Foreign Policy Beliefs.”The Washington Post. 1996.- Robert Longley
Madeleine K. Albright was a professor, author, diplomat and businesswoman who served as the 64th Secretary of State of the United States. Dr. Albright received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, from President Obama on May 29, 2012.
Mar 24, 2022 · Spencer Platt/Getty Images. Madeleine Albright, a refugee brought to U.S. shores after fleeing Nazis and communists and who went on to become the first woman to serve as secretary of state,...
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...
