Madeleine Albright has died at age 84, her family announced in a statement on Wednesday, March 23.“We are heartbroken to announce that Dr.
Madeleine K. Albright, the 64th U.S. Secretary of State and the first woman to hold that position, passed away earlier today,” Albright’s family said in a statement on her official Twitter account.They also announced her cause of death. “The cause was cancer.
She was surrounded by family and friends. We have lost a loving mother, grandmother sister, aunt and friend.”Albright was named U.S.
ambassador to the United Nations shortly after President Bill Clinton was inaugurated in 1993. He nominated her as secretary of state three years later.In 2012, President Barack Obama awarded her the Medal of Freedom.Her family proudly included many of her accomplishments in the announcement of her passing: “Madeleine Albright, born Marie Jana Korbelova, was a native of Prague who came to the United States as a refugee in 1948 and rose to the heights of American policy-making, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
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