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A Short Biography of Madeleine Albright

Author Name:

Madeleine Albright

Born As:

Marie Jana Korbelová

Other Names:

Madeleine Korbel Albright

Born:

15 May 1937

Died:





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Politician                          
                          
Raised as a Roman Catholic by her parents, who had converted from Judaism in order to escape persecution.
Many of her Jewish relatives in Czechoslovakia were killed in the Holocaust, including three of her grandparents.
Husband Chicago newspaper journalist Joseph Medill Patterson Albright.
They have three daughters, twins Anne and Alice, and Katie and divorced in 1982.                          
US ambassador to UN - 1993-1997
64th United States Secretary of State - First female Secretary of State - 1997-2001