Joseph Medill Patterson Albright: Who is Madeleine Albright’s ex-husband?

Joseph Medill Patterson Albright was an American businessman and news publisher. He was the husband of Madeleine Albright.

Albright is the scion of a media empire, the grandson and namesake of Joseph Medill Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News who had rivalled William Randolph Hearst in the 1930s.

His great-great-grandfather, Joseph Medill, owned the Chicago Tribune and had been elected mayor of Chicago. His aunt, Alicia Patterson, founded Newsday.

Joseph and Madeleine Albright

Albright attended Williams College. He met Madeleine Jana Korbel (the late Madeline Albright) when she spent a summer working at the Denver Post. They married in 1959 after Madeleine graduated from Wellesley College.

They had three children: twin girls, Anne and Alice (born 1961), and youngest daughter Katie. The couple divorced in 1982 and Albright later married Marcia Kunstel. Together, they own Flat Creek Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.