Madeleine Albright
| Madeleine Albright | |
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Madeleine Albright
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| 64th United States Secretary of State | |
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In office January 23, 1997 – January 20, 2001 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Deputy | Strobe Talbott |
| Preceded by | Warren Christopher |
| Succeeded by | Colin Powell |
| 20th United States Ambassador to the United Nations | |
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In office January 27, 1993 – January 21, 1997 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Edward J. Perkins |
| Succeeded by | Bill Richardson |
| Personal details | |
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Marie Jana Korbelová May 15, 1937 Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Joseph Albright (1959–1982) |
| Children | Alice Anne Katherine |
| Education |
Wellesley College (BA) Johns Hopkins University Columbia University (MA, PhD) |
| Religion |
Episcopalianism (Formerly Roman Catholicism) |
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Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Korbelová; May 15, 1937) is an American politician and diplomat. She is the first woman to have become the United States Secretary of State. She was nominated by U.S. President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was unanimously confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote of 99–0. She was sworn in on January 23, 1997.
Albright currently serves as chair of Albright Stonebridge Group and as a professor of International Relations at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and numerous honorary degrees. In May 2012, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama. Secretary Albright also serves as a director on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Albright is fluent in English, French, Russian, and Czech; she speaks and reads Polish and Serbo-Croatian as well.
Marie Jana Korbelová was born in 1937 in the Smíchov district of Prague, Czechoslovakia, the daughter of Anna (Spieglová) and Czech diplomat Josef Korbel. At the time of her birth, Czechoslovakia had been independent for less than 20 years, having gained independence from Austria-Hungary after World War I. Josef was a supporter of the early Czech democrats Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Edvard Beneš. Madeleine grew up with a younger sister named Katherine (born October 1942) and a younger brother named John.
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