Madeleine Albright, the first woman to hold the position of US Secretary of State and one of the most influential women of her generation, died Wednesday at age 84, her family said in a statement.
The family explained that Albright, Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001, during the term of Democrat Bill Clinton, died of cancer surrounded by her loved ones, and said they paid tribute to anyone who was “a loving mother, grandmother, sister and friend,” as well as a “tireless champion of democracy and human rights.”
Clinton elected Albright as the top diplomat of the United States in 1996, a position in which she served during the last four years of the Democrat's administration.
Throughout that period, she was the highest-ranking woman in the history of the United States. However, she was not in the line of succession to the presidency because she was a native of Czechoslovakia. Albright was born in the city of Prague.
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