Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

* 1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.

Madeleine Albright ( U. S. Ambassador to the U. N .) claims to have answered ( when she should have challenged ) a loaded question on 60 Minutes on 12 May 1996.

Madeleine Albright: " I think that is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it .”

Despite Ekéus ' belief that Iraq was nearly certifiable as being free of such weapons, U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced that United Nations sanctions would not be lifted until such time as Hussein was no longer in power.

In the last six months of the Clinton administration, United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced that the term " rogue state " would be abolished in June 2000, in favour of " states of concern ," as three of the rogue states ( Libya, Iran and North Korea ) no longer met the four transgressions which defined a rogue state.

* October 23 – Madeleine Albright holds talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il.

The law's author, Joe Biden, and UN Ambassador and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and Hillary Clinton ( see below ) become vocal advocates of action against violence against women.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, leading policy proposals, traveling abroad as a State Department representative to 82 nations, advising her husband, and being elected a Senator ( in 2000 ), is the most openly empowered and politically powerful First Lady in American history ; Madeleine Albright and Janet Reno take two of the cabinet's top jobs as United States Secretary of State (# 1 ), and United States Attorney General (# 4 ), respectively.

* January 22 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first female Secretary of State, after confirmation by the United States Senate.

** Madeleine Albright, U. S. Secretary of State

He met the Czech President Václav Havel, the American President Bill Clinton and the US ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright at U zlatého tygra on 11 January 1994.

Madeleine Albright at World Economic Forum.

However, he worked smoothly with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Former United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright ended her summit with Kim by presenting him with a basketball signed by NBA legend Michael Jordan.

United States Special Envoy for the Korean Peace Talks, Charles Kartman, who was involved in the 2000 Madeleine Albright summit with Kim, characterised Kim as a reasonable man in negotiations, to the point, but with a sense of humor and personally attentive to the people he was hosting.

* Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward, Prague Winter: A personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937 – 1948, Harper, 2012

* Foreword by Madeleine Albright

Recipients have included Lynn Sherr, Diane Sawyer, Pamela Melroy, Judith Martin, Nora Ephron, Ophelia Dahl, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Madeleine Korbel Albright, among many others.

Secretaries of state Hillary Clinton, class of 1969, and Madeleine Albright, class of 1959, have spoken with enthusiasm about the formative impact their Wellesley experiences had on their later careers.

According to U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, some of the Palestinian negotiators were willing to privately discuss a limit on the number of refugees who would be allowed to return to Israel.

* Madeleine Albright ( 2003 ).

of state Madeleine Albright

* Madeleine Albright ( 1937 – ) served as U. S. Secretary of State during the Clinton Administration

* Her Royal Highness Princess Madeleine Thérèse Amelie Josephine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, born on 10 June 1982.

* Alan Madlane, born Alan Madeleine, former writer and editor for Creem Magazine and actor, Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wendigo

Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert (; born 16 March 1953 / 1955 ) is a French actress who has appeared in over 90 film and television productions since 1971.

* Marie Madeleine Lee nee Ah Chuen 朱志筠 ( 1927 -; Meixian, Guangdong ; born in Mauritius ), Mauritius ' first ambassador to China, 1999 – 2000

# Her Royal Highness Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, daughter of the King, born 1982

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, otherwise known as Reinette (' little queen ') to her friends, was born on 29 December 1721 in Paris to François Poisson ( 1684-1754 ) and his wife Madeleine de La Motte ( 1699-1745 ).

** Madeleine Patin, French moralist writer ( born 1610 )

** Madeleine Des Roches, French poet and author ( born c. 1520 )

He was born in 1924 in Versailles, France to Jean-Pierre Lyotard, a sales representative, and Madeleine Cavalli.

* Madeleine Stowe ( born 1958 ), American actress

Madeleine Mary Zeien Bordallo ( born May 31, 1933 ) is the Delegate from the United States territory of Guam to the United States House of Representatives.

Madeleine Mary Zeien was born in Graceville, Minnesota to a military family and grew up on Guam after her father was stationed there.

Favreau was born Jonathan Kolia Favreau in Flushing, Queens, New York, the son of Madeleine, an elementary school teacher who died of leukemia in 1979, and Charles Favreau, a special education teacher.

Collins was born in Des Moines, Iowa, the son of Madeleine ( née Robertson ) and Cyrus S. Collins, an airline executive.

Ségur was born in Paris, the son of Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur and Louise Anne Madeleine de Vernon.

She was born in the Burgundy region of France to Pierre Labouré, a farmer, and Louise Madeleine Gontard, the ninth of 11 living children.

** HRH Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, born on 10 June 1982.

Madeleine May Kunin ( born September 28, 1933 ) is an American diplomat and politician.

Josef Korbel ( born Josef Körbel ; 20 September 1909 – 18 July 1977 ) was a Czechoslovakian diplomat and political scientist, who is now best known as the father of Bill Clinton's Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, and the mentor of George W. Bush's Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.

Will has three children — Victoria, Geoffrey, and Jonathan — with his first wife, Madeleine ; Jon was born in 1972 with Down syndrome, which Will has written about in his column on occasion. In 1989, he was divorced from Madeleine after 22 years of marriage.

# HRH The Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland ( Princess Madeleine, born 1982 )

******* ( 1. 1. 3. 1. 1. 1. 1. 3 ) Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, born 10 June 1982

Samms was born in Willesden, London, England, the daughter of Madeleine U. ( née White ), a ballet dancer, and Michael E. W. Samuelson, who owned a film equipment rental company.