Joseph Medill Albright This is Me

Education

 Web References

1. 1. www.notablebiographies.com

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   Published on: 4/2/2008   Last Visited: 4/23/2008

   Albright married Joseph Medill Patterson Albright three days after graduating from Wellesley.
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   Albright began her political career by working for the unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1976 of Senator Edmund S. Muskie (1914,1996).
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   In 1978 Albright was asked by one of her former professors at Columbia University, Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928,), National Security Adviser under President Jimmy Carter (1924,), to be a legislative liaison for the National Security Council.
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   Albright spent the following year writing Poland, the Role of the Press in Political Change, about the role played by the press during a time of unusual political change in Poland during the 1980s.
   
   Albright,s next important career milestone came in 1982, when she joined the faculty of Georgetown University.At George-town Madeleine Albright.Reproduced by permission of Archive Photos, Inc.she became a research professor of international affairs and the director of women students enrolled at the university,s School of Foreign Service.
   
   Albright became advisor to presidential candidate Walter Mondale (1928,) and his running mate, Geraldine Ferraro (1935,), during their 1984 presidential race.
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   In 1989, Albright became president of the Center for National Policy, a nonprofit research organization.Over the next few years she was appointed to the boards of several institutions, including Wellesley College, the Black Student Fund, and the Washington Urban League.
   
   Ambassador to the United Nations
   
   When Bill Clinton (1946,) sought the presidential nomination in 1992, Albright supported him.
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   Then, Clinton chose Albright to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (UN).
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   Albright immediately became a major force at the UN.She was familiar with world politics and she represented the United States, the UN,s largest contributor to its activities and budget.As a UN ambassador, Albright learned to balance the needs of three different groups: the Clinton administration, the UN delegates, and the American public.She was involved in debates over UN peacekeeping activities and the direction of American foreign policy.
   
   First woman to serve as Secretary of State
   
   In 1996 Clinton nominated Albright for secretary of state and the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed her nomination.

2. 2. forum.equis.com

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   Published on: 5/16/2008   Last Visited: 5/17/2008

   After graduating from Wellesley College in 1959, Albright married Joseph Medill Patterson Albright of the prominent Medill newspaper-publishing family.
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   During the Republican presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, Albright worked for several nonprofit organizations and taught at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
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   With a Democrat--Bill Clinton--in the White House again in 1992, Albright found herself at the center of Washington's most powerful circle.
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   In that post, Albright earned a reputation as a straight-talking defender of American interests and an advocate for an increased role for the U.S. in U.N. operations.In late 1996, Clinton nominated Albright to succeed Warren Christopher as U.S. secretary of state.
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   As secretary of state, Albright pursued an active foreign policy, including the use of military force to pressure autocratic regimes in Yugoslavia and Iraq, among other troubled regions.Her trip to North Korea in October 2000 to meet with leader Kim Jong Il made her the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit that country.She drew some criticism for her tough position on U.S. sanctions against Iraq, which led to many civilian deaths in that country and fueled the rage of Muslim extremists such as Osama bin Laden.

3. 3. Madeleine Albright and Maya Angelou : What I Know Now

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   Published on: 7/29/2006   Last Visited: 6/30/2008

   After attending Kent, a private girls' school in Denver, Madeleine went to Wellesley College on scholarship and married journalist Joe Albright three days after graduating.
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   Shortly after Joe announced that he wanted a divorce, she accepted an offer to join the faculty at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.At that time in her life she had already earned a master of arts and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, acted as chief legislative assistant to Senator Edmund Muskie, and worked on the National Security Council's staff.In her new position, she was charged with creating a program that would encourage women to enter international relations, and she was expected to serve as a role model for those young women.