Genoveva Guardiola de Estrada Palma, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Honduran-born First Lady of Cuba
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Place of Birth: Comayagua, Comayagua Department, Honduras
About Genoveva Guardiola de Estrada Palma
- Genoveva Guardiola de Estrada Palma (30 July 1858 – 30 December 1926) was the Honduran-born wife of the first President of Cuba, Tomás Estrada Palma, when the country gained its independence from Spain.
- Raised in Honduras, she moved with her husband to the United States in 1882 and assisted him with the bi-lingual school he established in Central Valley, New York.
- When her husband was elected as the first president of Cuba, after the country gained independence from Spain, she served as the inaugural First Lady.
- During her husband's second term in office, he resigned and she moved with him to the Cuban countryside to run an agricultural estate.
- Upon his death, she returned to the United States.
- Her image was depicted on a 1956 postage stamp issued by the Honduran Postal Service.
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