Charlotte Garrigue
| Charlotte Garrigue | |
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| First Lady of Czechoslovakia | |
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In office 14 November 1918 – 13 May 1923 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Hana Benešová |
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| Born | 20 November 1850 New York, United States |
| Died | 13 May 1923 Lány, Czechoslovakia |
| Political party | Czech Social Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) |
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1878-1923) |
| Children | 6 |
Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk, Czech: Charlotta Garrigue-Masaryková, (November 20, 1850 in Brooklyn, New York, United States – May 13, 1923 Lány, Czechoslovakia) was the wife of the Czechoslovak philosopher, sociologist, and politician, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first President of Czechoslovakia. She was born to a Unitarian family with Huguenot ancestry on her father's side and having a Mayflower passengers' descent on her mother's side. She was niece of Henry Jacques Garrigues and great-granddaughter of Christian Vilhelm Duntzfelt.
In 1877, visiting a friend studying at a conservatory in Leipzig, Germany, she first met her future husband, Tomáš Masaryk, who was staying there after having earned his doctorate at the University of Vienna. They married a year later in the USA, after which they settled in Vienna. After the wedding, her husband added her surname into his name, thus becoming Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, as he is remembered in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (or often by the abbreviation TGM). In 1881, the Masaryks moved to Prague, where Tomáš obtained a professorship at the University of Prague. Of the couple's six children, four reached adulthood - Alice, Herbert, Olga, and Jan, who later became a noted Czechoslovakian diplomat and politician.
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