Profession: US Secretary of State
Biography: Madeleine Albright is an American diplomat and politician who served as the first female Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001. She was born in 1937 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and fled the country with her family in 1948 after the Communist takeover.
She immigrated to the United States, where she studied at Wellesley College and earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Albright served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997, and was nominated by President Bill Clinton to be Secretary of State in 1997.
As Secretary of State, she advocated for strong U.S. leadership in the world and was a key architect of U.S. foreign policy during the 1990s, including the expansion of NATO and the intervention in Kosovo.
She left office in 2001 and has since served as a professor at Georgetown University and as a member of various think tanks and non-profit organizations.
Born: May 15, 1937
Birthplace: Prague, Czechoslovakia
Generation: Silent Generation
Chinese Zodiac: Ox
Star Sign: Taurus
Historical Events
- 1997-02-04 US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish, three of whom were killed in the Holocaust
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