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Thursday 24 March 2022

RIP Madeleine Albright (1937-2012)

Madeleine Albright working on a student newspaper
at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, in 1958.

Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright was born Marie Jana Korbelová in the Smíchov district of Prague, Czechoslovakia, on May 15, 1937.  She was the first female Secretary of State in US history, serving from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Albright died from cancer in Washington DC on Wednesday, aged 84.

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