RIP Madeleine Albright
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors who fled Czechoslovakia as a child before later becoming America's top diplomat, has died. She was 84.
Albright's family said in a statement that the cause of death was cancer.
"She was surrounded by family and friends. We have lost a loving mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend," her family said in the statement.
As the first female Secretary of State, Albright became the most powerful woman in American history in 1997. It would take another decade for Nancy Pelosi to secure the speaker's gavel and another 15 years before Vice President Kamala Harris' election. Unlike Pelosi and Harris, Albright was not in the presidential line of succession.
Business InsiderAlbright's family said in a statement that the cause of death was cancer.
"She was surrounded by family and friends. We have lost a loving mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend," her family said in the statement.
As the first female Secretary of State, Albright became the most powerful woman in American history in 1997. It would take another decade for Nancy Pelosi to secure the speaker's gavel and another 15 years before Vice President Kamala Harris' election. Unlike Pelosi and Harris, Albright was not in the presidential line of succession.
