Lindy Boggs
| Lindy Boggs | |
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| United States Ambassador to the Holy See | |
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In office December 16, 1997 – March 1, 2001 |
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| President |
Bill Clinton George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Raymond Flynn |
| Succeeded by | Jim Nicholson |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 2nd district |
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In office March 20, 1973 – January 3, 1991 |
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| Preceded by | Hale Boggs |
| Succeeded by | William Jefferson |
| Personal details | |
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March 13, 1916 New Roads, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | July 27, 2013 (aged 97) Chevy Chase, Maryland, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Hale Boggs |
| Children |
Barbara Tommy Cokie William Robertson |
| Alma mater | Tulane University |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
 Fresh Air Remembers Former Louisiana Congresswoman Lindy Boggs, Fresh Air
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Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs, usually known as Lindy Boggs (March 13, 1916 – July 27, 2013), was a United States political figure who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and later as United States Ambassador to the Holy See. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Louisiana. She was also a permanent chairwoman of the 1976 Democratic National Convention, which met in New York City to nominate the Carter-Mondale ticket. She was the first woman to preside over a major party convention.
Boggs was the widow of former Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives Hale Boggs, and the mother of four children: Cokie Roberts (a television journalist); Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. (a prominent lobbyist); Barbara Boggs Sigmund, a mayor of Princeton, New Jersey and an unsuccessful candidate in the 1982 New Jersey Democratic senatorial primary election (won by Frank Lautenberg); and William Robertson Boggs, who died as an infant on December 28, 1946. Catherine Small Long is the only other woman besides Boggs who has served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana.
Boggs was born on the Brunswick Plantation near New Roads in Pointe Coupee Parish in South Louisiana. She attended Newcomb College at Tulane University in New Orleans. She was a second cousin of deLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr., the former mayor of New Orleans, Ambassador to the Organization of American States, and three-time candidate for governor of Louisiana who for a time was her husband's law partner.
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