Ankica Tuđman
| Ankica Tuđman | |
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In role 22 December 1990 – 10 December 1999 |
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| President | Franjo Tuđman |
| Prime Minister |
Josip Manolić Franjo Gregurić Hrvoje Šarinić Nikica Valentić Zlatko Mateša |
| Preceded by | herself (as Spouse of the President of the Presidency of the Republic of Croatia) |
| Succeeded by | Neda Pavletić |
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In role 25 July 1990 – 22 December 1990 |
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| President | Franjo Tuđman |
| Prime Minister |
Stjepan Mesić Josip Manolić |
| Preceded by | herself as (as Spouse of the President of the Presidency of SR Croatia) |
| Succeeded by | herself (as Spouse of the President of the Republic of Croatia) |
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In role 30 May 1990 – 25 July 1990 |
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| President | Franjo Tuđman |
| Prime Minister | Stjepan Mesić |
| Preceded by | Milena Latin |
| Succeeded by | herself (as Spouse of the President of the Presidency of the Republic of Croatia) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ankica Žumbar 24 July 1926 Zagreb, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now Croatia) |
| Spouse(s) | Franjo Tuđman (m. 1945, d. 1999) |
| Children | Miroslav, Stjepan and Nevenka |
Ankica Tuđman (née Žumbar) (born 24 July 1926) is the widow of Franjo Tuđman, the first President of an independent Croatia from 1991 until 1999, following the country's secession from SFR Yugoslavia, and the last President of the Presidency of SR Croatia as a constituent Yugoslav republic.
She is the mother of Member of Parliament and former presidential candidate Miroslav Tuđman.
Ankica Žumbar was born in Zagreb on 24 July 1926. She finished primary school in Zagreb and attended hospitality school until she abandoned her studies to join the Partisans in May 1944.
At age 18 she met her future husband, Franjo Tuđman, in Čazma where he was in charge of a department of the 10th Zagreb Corps of the Yugoslav Partisans. In January 1945 she transferred from Čazma to the Supreme command in Belgrade, returning to Zagreb following its libeartion by Partisan forces in May 1945. Thereafter, she moved to Belgrade with Tuđman, gaining employment at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of SFR Yugoslavia and marrying Tuđman on 25. May 1945. They had two sons and one daughter: Miroslav (born in 1946), Stjepan (born in 1948) and Nevenka (born in 1951).
In 1954 she passed the high school leaving exam and enrolled at the University of Belgrade to study English. However, she abandoned her college studies on her sophmore year, choosing to take a course in English at the Yugoslav foreign ministry. In 1960 her husband was promoted to the rank of major general, but decided to leave the military in 1961, with the whole family moving back to Zagreb. Once there Franjo Tuđman established the Institute for the History of the Labour Movement in Croatia (Croatian: Institut za historiju radničkog pokreta Hrvatske) (now called the Croatian Institute of History (Croatian: Hrvatski institut za povijest)) and its first director. However, he was removed from that position in 1967 and forced to abandon his membership in the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. In 1972 and 1981 Franjo Tuđman was sentenced to prison.
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