La Guardia married twice.
His first wife was Thea Almerigotti, an Istrian immigrant, whom he married on March 8, 1919.
In June 1920 they had a daughter, Fioretta Thea, who died May 9, 1921, of spinal meningitis.
His first wife died of tuberculosis on November 29, 1921, at the age of 26.
In 1929 he married Marie Fisher (1895–1984) who had been his secretary while in Congress; they adopted two children, Eric Henry (born 1930), a Hobart College graduate who became a professor at the University of Washington, and the biological daughter of Thea's sister, Jean Marie (1928–1962), a Barnard College graduate who later became an editor of Mademoiselle.
La Guardia married twice. His first wife was Thea Almerigotti, an Istrian immigrant, whom he married on March 8, 1919. In June 1920 they had a daughter, Fioretta Thea, who died May 9, 1921, of spinal meningitis. His first wife died of tuberculosis on November 29, 1921, at the age of 26. In 1929 he married Marie Fisher (1895–1984) who had been his secretary while in Congress; they adopted two children, Eric Henry (born 1930), a Hobart College graduate who became a professor at the University of Washington, and the biological daughter of Thea's sister, Jean Marie (1928–1962), a Barnard College graduate who later became an editor of Mademoiselle.
Fiorello La Guardia