FORMER Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has died after battling cancer.
The family confirmed her tragic passing in a statement on Wednesday.
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“We are heartbroken to announce that Dr Madeleine K Albright, the 64th US Secretary of State and the first woman to hold that position, passed away earlier today,” the statement read.
The family went on to confirm that her cause of death was cancer, and said she was surrounded by family and friends when she passed.
“We have lost a loving mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend,” the statement continued.
As news of Ms Albright’s passing circulated, many politicians flocked together to pay tribute.
A Department of State spokesperson said: “The impact that she has had on this building is felt every single day in just about every single corner…she was a trailblazer.”
The politician came to the United States from Prague as a refugee in 1948.
From there, she rose in thee ranks of American politics and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
President Bill Clinton chose Albright as America’s top diplomat in 1996, and she served in that capacity for the last four years of the Clinton administration.
At the time, she was the highest-ranking woman in the history of US government.
She was not in the line of succession for the presidency, however, because she was a native of Czechoslovakia.
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