Madeleine Albright
Diplomat and political scientist
Madeleine Albright was an American diplomat and political scientist who became the first woman to serve as US secretary of state. She also wrote Fascism.
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Born 1937 in Prague, Czech Republic Died 2022
About Madeleine Albright
Born in Prague in 1937, Albright came to the United States as a child after the 1948 communist coup in Czechoslovakia. She became a US citizen in 1957 and earned a PhD from Columbia University in 1975. She served as US ambassador to the United Nations before becoming secretary of state under President Bill Clinton, a post she held from 1997 to 2001. Later she chaired the consulting firm Albright Stonebridge Group and taught diplomacy at Georgetown University. Albright wrote the New York Times bestsellers Madam Secretary and The Mighty and the Almighty. Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012, and she died on March 23, 2022.