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Copied from Madeleine Albright article:

Along with her family, Albright immigrated to the United States in 1948 from Czechoslovakia. Her father, Diplomat Josef Korbel, settled the family in Denver, and she became a U.S. citizen in 1957. Albright graduated from Wellesley College in 1959 and earned a PhD from Columbia University in 1975, writing her thesis on the Prague Spring. She worked as an aide to Senator Edmund Muskie before taking a position under Zbigniew Brzezinski on the National Security Council. She served in that position until the end of President Jimmy Carter's singular term in 1981.

After leaving the National Security Council, Albright joined the academic faculty of Georgetown University and advised Democratic candidates regarding foreign policy. After Clinton's victory in the 1992 presidential election, she helped assemble his National Security Council. In 1993, Clinton appointed her to the position of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. She held that position until 1997, when she succeeded Warren Christopher as Secretary of State, serving until Clinton left office in 2001.

Albright has served as chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group since 2009 and is currently a professor of International Relations at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

Early Life...

she is the daughter of Anna (née Spieglová) and Josef Korbel, a Czech diplomat

Her father was a supporter of the early Czech democrats,

Marie Jana has a younger sister Katherine and a younger brother John (these versions of their names are anglicized).

When Marie Jana was born, her father was serving as a press-attaché at

The family then moved to Britain where her father worked for Beneš's Czechoslovak government-in-exile

After the defeat of the Nazis in the European Theatre of World War II and the collapse of Nazi Germany and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Korbel family returned to Prague.

Korbel was appointed as Czechoslovakian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, and the family moved to Belgrade.

After the defeat of the Nazis in the European Theatre of World War II and the collapse of Nazi Germany and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the

Youth...

He became dean of the university's Graduate School of International Studies and later taught future U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In 2008, the school

Albright spent her teen years in Denver, and in 1955 she graduated from the Kent Denver School in Cherry Hills Village, a suburb of Denver.

She attended Wellesley College, in Wellesley, Massachusetts, on a full scholarship, majoring in political science and graduating in 1959.

There she met Joseph Medill Patterson Albright, who was the nephew of Alicia Patterson, owner of Newsday, and philanthropist Harry Frank Guggenheim.

The couple was married in Wellesley in 1959, shortly after her graduation.

Albright studied international relations and Russian at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, a division of Johns Hopkins University in the capital city.

In 1963 Joseph's aunt, Alicia Patterson, died, and the Albrights returned to Long Island with the notion of Joseph taking over the family newspaper business.

Career...

UN Ambassador

During her tenure at the U.N., she had a rocky relationship with the U.N. Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who she criticized as being "disengaged" and "neglect[ful]" of genocide in Rwanda. Albright wrote, "My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes."

Secretary of State...

Not being a natural-born citizen of the U.S., she was not eligible as a U.S. Presidential successor and was excluded from nuclear contingency plans.

Albright considerably influenced American foreign policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Middle East.

According to several accounts, Prudence Bushnell, U.S. Ambassador to Kenya, repeatedly asked Washington for additional security at the embassy in Nairobi, including a letter directly addressed to Albright in April 1998.

She later stated that when she spoke to Albright about the letter, Albright told her that it had not been shown to her.

On January 8, 2001, in one of her last acts as Secretary of State, Albright made a farewell call to Kofi Annan

Following Albright's term as Secretary of State, many speculated that she might pursue a career in Czech politics. Czech President, Václav Havel, spoke

In 2003, Albright accepted a position on the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange. In 2005, she declined to run for re-election to the board in the aftermath of the Richard Grasso compensation scandal, in which Grasso, the chairman of the NYSE Board of Directors, had been granted $187.5 million in compensation, with little governance by the board on which Albright sat.

Albright endorsed and supported Hillary Clinton in her 2008 presidential campaign. Albright has been a close friend of Clinton and has served as an informal advisor on foreign policy matters.

In 2009 Albright also published the book Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box about her pins.

Lesley Stahl asked her, "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" and Albright replied, "We think the price is worth it." Albright later criticized Stahl's segment as "amount[ing] to Iraqi propaganda," saying that her question was a loaded question. She wrote, "I had fallen into a trap and said something I did not mean," and she regretted coming "across as cold-blooded and cruel."

Following the Washington Post's profile of Albright by Michael Dobbs, an Austrian man named Philipp Harmer launched legal action against Albright, claiming that her father had illegally taken possession of artwork, which belonged to his great-grandfather, Karl Nebrich.

She was filmed saying, "Disgusting Serbs, get out!"