First Female Secretary of State
January 23, 1997 - Madeleine Albright Sworn In as Secretary State
Madeleine Albright became the first female Secretary of State, and also the highest-ranking female official in American history, on this day in 1997.
Albright was born in Czechoslovakia (now the two countries of the Czech Republic and Slovak Federative Republic) in 1937 and came to the United States as a political refugee of the communist regime in 1948. She earned a Ph.D. in law and government from Columbia University and served on the National Security Council staff after graduating. Then president Bill Clinton first appointed Albright as a United Nations representative in 1993 before naming her as his Secretary of State in 1997.
Quote for ToDay:
" Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be. " - - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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