Charlie Munger Children: Meet His Sons And Daughters

Charlie Munger has died leaving his children and family in a state of mourning. In this post, we will discuss details of Charlie Munger’s children for you to know much about his sons and daughters.

Who is Charlie Munger

Charlie Munger was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist born in Omaha, Nebraska to Alfred Case Munger, his father who was a lawyer by profession. As a teenager, he worked at Buffett & Son, a grocery store owned by Warren Buffett’s grandfather, Ernest P. Buffett.

He enrolled at the University of Michigan, where he studied mathematics. During his time in college, he joined the fraternity Sigma Phi Society. In early 1943, a few days after his 19th birthday, he dropped out of college to serve in the U.S. Army Air Corps, where he became a second lieutenant. After receiving a high score on the Army General Classification Test, he was ordered to study meteorology at Caltech in Pasadena, California, the town he was to make his home.

During his days in college and the Army, he developed “an important skill”: card playing. He used this in his approach to business. “What you have to learn is to fold early when the odds are against you, or if you have a big edge, back it heavily because you don’t get a big edge often. Opportunity comes, but it doesn’t come often, so seize it when it does come.” He also used the card analogy to explain his approach to investing. He maintained that treating the shares of a company like baseball cards is a losing strategy because it requires one to predict the behavior of often irrational and emotional human beings.

Who are Charlie Munger’s children?

Charlie Munger had six children, consisting of three sons and three daughters. Charlie Munger’s sons are known as Charles T. Munger, Jr Philip R. Munger, and Barry Munger. Charlie Munger’s daughters are Molly Munger, Emilie Munger Ogden, and Wendy Munger.

In 1945, while studying at Caltech, Munger married Nancy Huggins, They had three children, Wendy Munger (a former corporate lawyer, trustee of Stanford University, and trustee of The Huntington Library, Molly Munger (a civil rights attorney and funder of a ballot initiative to raise California taxes for public education) and Teddy Munger (deceased, leukemia, age 9).

After Munger’s divorce, he remarried within a couple of years and that was how he gave birth to his remaining children.

Charlie Munger’s Death explored

Munger died at a hospital in Santa Barbara, California, on November 28, 2023, at the age of 99. In a statement following his death, Warren Buffett said, “Berkshire Hathaway could not have been built to its present status without Charlie’s inspiration, wisdom, and participation.”

In his 50s, after a failed eye cataract surgery that rendered his left eye blind, Charlie Munger had his left eye removed due to severe pain. When doctors told him that he had developed a condition that may cause his remaining eye to fill up with blood and become blind, Munger started taking braille lessons. The eye condition eventually receded and he kept eyesight in his right eye for the rest of his life.

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