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Madeleine Albright , the first woman to have served as U.S. secretary of state, has died at the age of 84.

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, Albrights family said in a statement. The cause was cancer.

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Below is a statement from the family of @Madeleine : pic.twitter.com/C7Xt0EN5c9
Madeleine Albright (@madeleine) March 23, 2022

She is survived by her three daughters.

Albright was the first female secretary of state, serving under President Bill Clinton, from 1997 to 2001. At the time she was appointed, she became the highest-ranking woman to serve in the federal government.

Albright was born in Prague on May 15, 1937, to Josef Korbel, a diplomat, and Anna Spieglova. Her parents, who had converted from Judaism to Catholicism, were forced into exile in 1939 when the Nazis occupied the region. The family returned briefly to Czechoslovakia after the war but left again after the communist takeover, this time emigrating to the United States. It wasnt until she was an adult that Albright learned her parents had been Jewish and that many of her relatives were killed in the Holocaust.

Albright became an American citizen in 1957. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1959, and earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1975, after which she went to work for Ed Muskie, a Democratic senator from Maine.

From there, she joined President Jimmy Carters administration, working for her former Columbia professor Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser, until Carter lost reelection in 1980.

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