What Religion Was Madeleine Albright?

American diplomat, Madeleine Albright, had been raised Roman Catholic, but converted to the Episcopal Church at the time of her marriage in 1959.

Albright married Joseph Medill Patterson Albright in 1959. The couple had three daughters before divorcing in 1982.

Albright served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. She was the first female secretary of state in U.S. history.

Albright immigrated with her family to the United States in 1948 from Czechoslovakia.

Her father, diplomat Josef Korbel, settled the family in Denver, Colorado, and she became a U.S. citizen in 1957.

Albright graduated from Wellesley College in 1959 and earned a PhD from Columbia University in 1975, writing her thesis on the Prague Spring.

She worked as an aide to Senator Edmund Muskie before taking a position under Zbigniew Brzezinski on the National Security Council. She served in that position until 1981, when President Jimmy Carter left office.

In May 2012, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama. Albright served on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations.