Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 2nd district
In office March 20, 1973 – January 3, 1991
Preceded by
Hale Boggs
Succeeded by
William J. Jefferson
Personal details
Born
Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne
(1916-03-13)March 13, 1916 New Roads, Louisiana, U.S.
Died
July 27, 2013(2013-07-27) (aged 97) Chevy Chase, Maryland, U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Spouse
Hale Boggs
(m. 1938; died 1972)
Children
4, including Barbara, Tommy, and Cokie
Education
Tulane University (BA)
Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs (March 13, 1916 – July 27, 2013) was a politician 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.[1] She was the first woman to preside over a major party convention.[2]
Boggs was the widow of former Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives Hale Boggs. She is one of three female U.S. Representatives from Louisiana, the others being Catherine Small Long and Julia Letlow, each of whom took office in special elections after the death of their husbands.
^"IPTV website". Archived from the original on September 14, 2008.
^She was followed in that capacity by Martha Layne Collins in 1984, Ann Richards in 1992, and Nancy Pelosi in 2008.
In 1934, Lindy Claiborne met Thomas Hale Boggs at Tulane where the pair worked as editors for the school newspaper, The Hullabaloo. Boggs attended Tulane...
LindyBoggs Medical Center, formerly known as Mercy Hospital and also known as LindyBoggs Hospital, is a now-abandoned 187-bed acute care hospital operated...
Judith Haydel. "Hale and LindyBoggs: Louisiana's National Democrats". Louisiana History 35 (Fall 1994): 389-402. Boggs, Lindy, with Katherine Hatch. Washington...
notable works include the congressional portraits of Abraham Lincoln and LindyBoggs for the United States Capitol, as well as Secretaries of State James...
primary for Governor of New Jersey in 1989. She was the daughter Hale Boggs and LindyBoggs, who both represented Louisiana in the United States House of Representatives...
parents were LindyBoggs and Hale Boggs, each of whom served for decades as Democratic members of the House of Representatives from Louisiana; Lindy succeeded...
Conquest was renovated in 2009. The Godmother of Carnival Conquest is LindyBoggs, former US Congresswoman for Louisiana. The vessel is currently homeported...
applied for. When the Banking committee marked up the ECOA, congresswoman LindyBoggs added the provision banning discrimination due to sex or marital status...
November 2. The convention is also notable for the fact that congresswoman LindyBoggs, who presided over it, thus became the first woman to preside over a...
Corps Hale Boggs, former U.S. Representative LindyBoggs, former U.S. Representative and retired U.S. Ambassador to The Vatican Thomas Hale Boggs Jr., lawyer/lobbyist...
Jackson, Former Governor Reubin Askew, Mayor Tom Bradley, Representative LindyBoggs, Secretary of Education Shirley Hufstedler, Representative L. Richardson...
may refer to: Billy Claiborne (1860–1882), American outlaw LindyBoggs (Corinne Claiborne Boggs, 1916–2013), member of the U.S. House of Representatives...
1994 LindyBoggs Fran Bussie Pat Evans Ginny Martinez Corinne D. Maybuce Mary Evelyn Parker Doris Lindsey Holland Rhodes Rupert F. Richardson Virginia...
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Rebecca Boggs Roberts (born 1970) is the Curator of Programming at Planet Word, and was formerly an American journalist. She was one of the hosts of POTUS...
Missouri11 July 12–15 1976 Madison Square Garden, New York [data missing] LindyBoggs of Louisiana 1976 platform 1 Jimmy Carter of Georgia (speech) Walter...
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original building. In 1990 it merged with Mercy Hospital (now called LindyBoggs Medical Center, located near the end of Bayou St. John on Norman Francis...
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