Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright · Philosophy & Social Sciences
First female US Secretary of State (1997-2001)
1937, Prague, Czechoslovakia — 2022, Washington D.C., USA
Prague, England (wartime exile), United States
Madeleine Albright is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — First female US Secretary of State (1997-2001)
Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. Secretary of State (1997–2001), was born in Prague to parents who were born and raised Jewish but converted to Roman Catholicism in 1941. Raised Catholic, she said she only learned of her Jewish origins at age 59; she then discovered that 26 relatives, including three grandparents, were murdered in the Holocaust.
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First female US Secretary of State (1997-2001)
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