Condoleezza Rice
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Condoleezza Rice (born November 14 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama) is the 66th and current United States Secretary of State. She is the second Secretary of State under President George W. Bush. She took over from Colin Powell on January 26, 2005, after he stepped down. Rice is the first African American woman, second African American (after Powell), and second woman (after Madeleine Albright) to serve as Secretary of State.
Before she became Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice was Bush's National Security Advisor during his first term (2001–2005). Before she did this, she was a Professor of political science at Stanford University from 1993 to 1999, where she also was the Provost.
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- Biography from the U.S. Department of State
- Biography from the White House
- Biography from the Hoover Institution
- Profile from BBC News
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