Lindy Boggs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lindy Boggs

American politician

Date of Birth: 13-Mar-1916

Place of Birth: New Roads, Louisiana, United States

Date of Death: 27-Jul-2013

Profession: politician, diplomat

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs, usually known as Lindy Boggs (March 13, 1916 – July 27, 2013), was a United States 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.
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.
Boggs is one of only two female U.S.
Representatives from Louisiana, the other being Catherine Small Long.