Joseph Medill Patterson Albright
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Joseph Medill Patterson Albright is the former husband of Madeleine Albright, former United States Secretary of State. He is the scion of a media empire, the grandson and namesake of Joseph Medill Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News who had rivaled William Randolph Hearst in the cutthroat publishing industry of 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.
The Albrights met when the then-Madeleine Korbel spent a summer working at the Denver Post alongside the budding journalist Albright and married soon after Madeleine's graduation from Wellesley College. They had three daughters, Katie and twins Anne and Alice. In 1982 after 23 years of marriage, Madeleine claims that Joseph told her out of the blue that their marriage was over and he was in love with another woman.
Joseph Albright attended Williams College.
