Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright was an American politician and diplomat who served as the 64th United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. She was the first female secretary of state in U.S. history.
Korbel married Joseph Medill Patterson Albright in 1959. The couple had three daughters before divorcing in 1982.
Korbel was raised Roman Catholic but converted to the Episcopal Church at the time of her marriage in 1959.
Her parents had converted from Judaism to Catholicism in 1941, during her early childhood, while still in Czechoslovakia, in an effort to avoid anti-Jewish persecution before they immigrated to the US. They never discussed their Jewish ancestry with her later.
Is Madeleine Albright still alive?
Madeleine Albright died on March 23, 2022, at the age of 84.
She was the Mortara Distinguished Professor of Diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C.
Albright served as chairperson of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and as president of the Truman Scholarship Foundation.