Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. secretary of state, has died, according to a statement from her family. | via NPR
"She was an immigrant fleeing persecution. A refugee in need of safe haven. And like so many before her — and after — she was proudly American. To make this country that she loved even better — she defied convention and broke barriers again and again," Biden said in a statement Wednesday."Madeleine was always a force for goodness, grace, and decency—and for freedom."
Her family moved to Denver, Colo., after the communist coup in 1948 in Yugoslavia, the Office of the Historian said. Albright became a U.S. citizen in 1957 and earned her bachelor's degree in political science with honors from Wellesley College in 1959. She earned a Ph.D. in Public Law and Government from Columbia University in 1976, the office added.
Before serving as secretary of state, she was appointed ambassador to the United Nations by Clinton in 1993. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the current U.S. ambassador to the U.N., called Albright"a trailblazer and a luminary" during a Wednesday meeting of the General Assembly Emergency Special Session on Ukraine.
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