Obituary
Madeleine Albright, Clinton’s Secretary of State, Dies at 84
- Was leading voice for use of force during Balkan conflicts
- Learned of Jewish roots more than half-century after birth
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Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state and a grande dame of foreign policy for the Democratic Party who wrote books, served on think tank boards and warned of the risk of fascism in the Donald Trump era, has died. She was 84.
She died on Wednesday, according to a statement from her family posted on Albright’s Twitter account. The cause was cancer.