Joseph Medill Patterson Albright Biography – Joseph Medill Patterson Albright Wiki
Joseph Medill Patterson Albright is an American businessman and news publisher. He is best known for being the former husband of Madeleine Albright. The couple however divorced. His former wife, Madeleine Albright was an American diplomat who served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. She was the first female secretary of state in U.S. history. His former wife, Madeleine Albright died from cancer in Washington, D.C., on March 23, 2022, at the age of 84.
Joseph 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 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 Medill Patterson Albright Age
He was born in 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Joseph Medill Patterson Albright Wife
He met Madeleine Jana Korbel (the late Madeleine Albright) when she spent a summer working at the Denver Post. They married in 1959 after Madeleine’s graduation from Wellesley College. They had three children: twin girls, Anne and Alice (born 1961), and youngest daughter Katie. The couple divorced in 1982.
Joseph later remarried Marcia Kunstel. Together, they own Flat Creek Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Joseph Medill Patterson Albright Children
With his former wife Madeleine, they had three children: twin girls, Anne and Alice (born 1961), and youngest daughter Katherine best known as Katie. The couple divorced in 1982.
Joseph Medill Patterson Albright Family
He is the son of Jay Frederick Reeve (1893–1956), a lawyer, and his wife, Josephine Medill Patterson (1913–1996), a reporter and airplane pilot. His parents divorced in 1944, and his mother married painter Ivan Le Lorraine Albright in 1946. Joseph and his sister Alice were adopted by their mother’s second husband, and their surname became “Albright”. Two additional children were born to this second marriage, Adam, and Blandina (known as “Dina”).
He is the grandson and namesake of Joseph Medill Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News who had rivaled 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.
