BREAKING NEWS: The first woman who served as U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has died.
Her family came to the U.S. after a communist coup in 1948, settling in Denver, Colorado. She changed her name to Madeleine and became a citizen in 1957.
She graduated with honors from Wellesley College in 1959 with a bachelor of arts in political science. She had a Ph.D. in public law and government from Columbia University, graduating in 1976. Albright went on to serve as a chief legislative assistant to Sen. Edmund Muskie from 1976 to 1978. She was a White House staffer under President Jimmy Carter and was on the National Security Council under National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.
She was appointed research professor of international affairs at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and served as director of its Women in Foreign Service Program. After she left her position as secretary of state, she remained outspoken on how the federal government operated internationally.
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