Madeleine Albright

Madeleine was the U.S Ambassador to the U.N. from 1993 to 1997.

Being foreign-born, Madeleine was not eligible as Presidential Successor and was excluded from nuclear contingency plans.

Madeleine was appointed Research Professor of International Affairs and Director of Women in Foreign Service Program at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in 1982.

In 1981 Madeleine co-founded the Center for National Policy. She also served as President of the organization.

Madeleine was awarded Honorary Doctors of Laws from the University of Washington in 2002 and the University of Winnipeg in 2005.

In 2003 Madeleine published her memoir, Madam Secertary.

Madeleine speaks fluent English, Czech, Russian and French, and has basic knowledge of Serbian, German and Polish.

Madeleine has a Ph.D. in Public Law and Government from Columbia University.

She has three daughters, twins Anne and Alice, and Katie.

In May 1959 she married Chicago newspaper journalist Joseph Medill Patterson Albright however they divorced in 1982 after Joseph announced he was in love with someone else.

She became a U.S. citizen in 1957.

She majored in political science on a scholarship at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.

Her father, Josef, served in the Czech diplomatic service.

Her parents were converted Catholics ,from Judaism, as Madeleine's grandparents had been killed in the Holocaust although she did not know about this, or her Jewish ancestry, until 1996.

She served as U.S Secretary of State for 1,822 days.

She was the first female U.S Secretary of State.

She was succeded as U.S. Secertary of State by Colin Powell on January 20, 2001.

She was preceded as the Secretary of State of the U.S by Warren Christopher.

She is the author of The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs.

She is a member of the Democratic Party.

She was the the 64th United States Secretary of State.