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Madeleine Albright, 1st female U.S. secretary of state, dies

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplo- bright was the highest-rank-
matic Writer ing woman in the history of
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. government. She was
Madeleine Albright, a child not in the line of succession
refugee from Nazi- and to the presidency, how-
then Soviet-dominated ever, because she was a
eastern Europe who rose native of Prague. The glass
to become the 1st female ceiling that she broke was
U.S. secretary of state and universally admired, even
a mentor to many cur- by her political detractors.
rent and former American In announcing her death
statesmen and women, has on Twitter, Albright’s fam-
died of cancer, her family ily said she died of can-
said Wednesday. She was cer and was surrounded
84. A lifelong Democrat by family and friends: “We
who nonetheless worked have lost a loving mother,
to bring Republicans into grandmother, sister, aunt
her orbit, Albright was cho- and friend,” the statement
sen in 1996 by President Bill said. Clinton called her
Clinton to be America’s “one of the finest Secretar-
top diplomat, elevating her ies of State, an outstanding
from her post as U.S. am- U.N. Ambassador, a brilliant
bassador to the United Na- professor, and an extraordi-
tions, where she had been nary human being.”
only the second woman to Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright speaks during the second day of the Democratic
hold that job. Continued on Page 2 National Convention in Philadelphia, July 26, 2016.
As secretary of state, Al- Associated Press