Lindy Boggs

Lindy Boggs

Corinne Claiborne "Lindy" Boggs (born March 13, 1916 in Pointe Coupee Parish , Louisiana , † July 27, 2013 in Chevy Chase , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1973 and 1991 she represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lindy Boggs was born Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne on March 13, 1916 on the Brunswick Plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish. Until 1931 she attended St. Joseph's Academy in New Roads . Then she studied until 1935 at Newcomb College , which belongs to Tulane University in New Orleans . In the following years she worked as a teacher. In 1938 she married the future Congressman Hale Boggs , with whom she had three children. Like her husband, she became a member of the Democratic Party .

On October 16, 1972, her husband was reported missing. At that time, he was campaigning for Congressman Nick Begich in Alaska . The plane with the two politicians disappeared without a trace over Alaska that day; a search was unsuccessful. After Congress officially declared Hale Boggs dead, his wife was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the necessary by- election. There she took up her new mandate on March 20, 1973. After eight re-elections, she could remain in Congress until January 3, 1991. The Watergate affair and the end of the Vietnam War coincided with her time as congressman . She was from 1975 to 1977 chairman of the members of the House of Representatives and the US Senate existing Joint Committee on Bicentennial arrangements . From 1985 to 1991 she headed the relevant committee within the US House of Representatives (Commission on the Bicentenary of the House of Representatives) .

In 1990, Lindy Boggs renounced another candidacy for the US House of Representatives. Between 1997 and 2001 she was an ambassador to the Holy See . Lindy Boggs is the first Louisiana politician to be elected to Congress. In 1976 she was also president of the Democratic National Convention . This made her the first woman to head a nomination convention for one of the two major American parties. Her daughter Barbara , who died of cancer in 1990, was also a politician and was from 1983 until her death Mayor of Princeton ( New Jersey ).

Lindy Boggs was Grand Cross Lady of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . She was awarded the Papal Order of Pius .

Web links

Commons : Lindy Boggs  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lindy Boggs in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lindy Boggs Dead: Former Rep. Dies At 97
2. ↑ OESSH : Obituary Lindy Boggs (English)