On May 15, 1937, America’s first female Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, born Marie Jana Korbelova, was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now known as the Czech Republic.) In 1939, Albright’s family fled to England after the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia because her family was Jewish. The Albright family returned home after WWII, but then ended up migrating to America in 1948.
In 1993, President Clinton appointed Albright as ambassador to the United Nations,, then in 1996, Clinton nominated her to succeed Warren Christopher as the U.S. Secretary of State. Albright was sworn in on January of 1997. Albrights’s term ended in 2000 with the election of President George W. Bush.
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