Hale Boggs
Hale Boggs | |
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House Majority Leader | |
In office January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1973[a] | |
Deputy | Tip O'Neill |
Speaker | Carl Albert |
Preceded by | Carl Albert |
Succeeded by | Tip O'Neill |
House Majority Whip | |
In office January 10, 1962 – January 3, 1971 | |
Leader | Carl Albert |
Preceded by | Carl Albert |
Succeeded by | Tip O'Neill |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 2nd district | |
In office January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1973 | |
Preceded by | Paul H. Maloney |
Succeeded by | Lindy Boggs |
In office January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1943 | |
Preceded by | Paul H. Maloney |
Succeeded by | Paul H. Maloney |
Personal details | |
Born | Thomas Hale Boggs February 15, 1914 Long Beach, Mississippi, U.S. |
Died | On or after October 16, 1972 (aged 58) Alaska, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse |
Declared dead in absentia December 29, 1972 (aged 58) |
Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. (February 15, 1914 – disappeared October 16, 1972;
In 1972, while still majority leader, Boggs was on a fundraising drive in Alaska when the twin engine airplane on which he was travelling along with Alaska congressman Nick Begich and two others disappeared en route from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska.
Early life and education
Boggs was born in
Career
U.S. House
A
His initial election was not without controversy; five of his political allies who served as
After an unsuccessful bid for renomination in 1942 against his predecessor Paul Maloney, Boggs joined the United States Navy as an ensign. He served the remainder of World War II.[citation needed]
Gubernatorial bid
After the war, Boggs began his political comeback. He was again elected to Congress in 1946 (on Maloney's retirement) and was then re-elected thirteen times, once just after he disappeared, but before he was presumed dead. In 1951, Boggs launched an ill-fated campaign for
The
Later House elections
During his tenure in Congress, Boggs was an influential member. After
Boggs was the youngest member of the
In the 1979 novel "The Matarese Circle", author Robert Ludlum portrayed Boggs as having been killed to stop his probe into the assassination.[15]
He served as
On August 22, 1968, while Secretary of State
In April 1971, he made a speech on the floor of the House in which he strongly attacked Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover and the whole of the FBI.[18]
That led to a conversation on April 6, 1971 between President
On April 22, 1971, Boggs went even further: "Over the postwar years, we have granted to the elite and secret police within our system vast new powers over the lives and liberties of the people. At the request of the trusted and respected heads of those forces, and their appeal to the necessities of national security, we have exempted those grants of power from due accounting and strict surveillance."[20]
Disappearance in Alaska
As majority leader, Boggs often campaigned for others, including Representative Nick Begich of Alaska. On October 16, 1972, Boggs was aboard a twin engine Cessna 310 with Representative Begich, who was facing a possible tight race in the November 1972 general election against the Republican candidate, Don Young, when it disappeared during a flight from Anchorage to Juneau. Also on board were Begich's aide, Russell Brown; and the pilot, Don Jonz;[21] the four were heading to a campaign fundraiser for Begich.
The search for the missing aircraft and four men included the U.S. Coast Guard, Navy, Army, Air Force, Civil Air Patrol and civilian fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters.[22]: 3
The Cessna was required to carry an
No emergency transmission signal determined to be from the plane was heard during the search. In its report on the incident, the
On November 24, 1972, the search was suspended after 39 days. Neither the wreckage of the plane nor the pilot's and passengers' remains were ever found. After a hearing and seven-minute jury deliberation, his death certificate was signed by Judge Dorothy Tyner.[23]
After Boggs and Begich were re-elected posthumously that November, House Resolution 1 of January 3, 1973, officially recognized Boggs's
In summer 2020, Boggs's disappearance was investigated in a podcast produced by iHeartMedia called Missing in Alaska.[24][25]
Personal life
In 1973, Boggs's wife since 1938,
Hale and Lindy Boggs had four children: Cokie Roberts,[30] who was a U.S. TV and public-radio journalist and the wife of journalist Steven V. Roberts, Thomas Hale Boggs Jr., who was a Washington, D.C.-based lawyer and lobbyist, Barbara Boggs Sigmund, who served as mayor of Princeton, New Jersey, and William Robertson Boggs, who died as an infant on December 28, 1946. In 1982, Sigmund lost a bid for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate to Frank Lautenberg.
Boggs was a practicing Roman Catholic.[31]
Tributes
The
In 1993, Boggs was among 13 politicians, past and present, inducted into the first class of the new Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.
See also
- List of people who disappeared mysteriously at sea
- List of United States Congress members who died in office
- List of members of the American Legion
Notes
- ^ As Boggs was missing and not officially declared dead until January, he formally retained an office after his disappearance.
References
- ISBN 9780708958162.
- ^ "The courage of his convictions: Hale Boggs and civil rights | Tulane University Digital Library". digitallibrary.tulane.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- JSTOR 4233145.
- OCLC 1154934309.
- ^ "Marijuana timeline". PBS. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
- ^ "HR 6127. Civil Rights Act of 1957". GovTrack.us.
- ^ "HR 8601. Passage".
- ^ "H.R. 7152. Passage".
- ^ "To Pass H.R. 6400, The 1965 Voting Rights Act".
- ^ "TO Pass H.R. 2516, A Bill to Establish Penalties for Interference With Civil Rights. Interference With a Person Engaged in One of the 8 Activities Protected Under This Bill Must Be Racially Motivated to Incur the Bill's Penalties".
- ^ "Sketches of 7 on Oswald Panel; General Counsel Rankin Plays Active Role". Chicago Tribune. Vol. 118, no. 272 (Final ed.). September 28, 1964. Section 1, page 8. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- ^ The Effectiveness of Public Law 102-526, the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 p. 141. Hearing Before the Legislation and National Security Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, November 17, 1993.
- ^ a b "Another Member of The Warren Commission Defends Findings". Lodi News-Sentinel. Lodi, California. UPI. November 28, 1966. p. 8. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
- ^ a b c "Boggs Says Assassination Data Complete". Sarasota Journal. Sarasota, Florida. AP. November 28, 1966. p. 28. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
- ^ "Hale Boggs' plane vanishes in Alaska: Oct. 16, 1972". Politico. 15 October 2016.
- ^ "N.O. GOES PRO!: 50 years ago, the birth of the Saints made New Orleans a major sports town". November 2016.
- ^ "U.S. Receives News of Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia — History.com Audio". History.com. Archived from the original on 9 September 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
- ^ "Boggs Demands That Hoover Quit". The New York Times. 6 April 1971.
- Sun-Sentinel. Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
- ^ Hale Boggs (April 22, 1971). Congressional record (PDF) (Speech). U.S. House of Representatives. Retrieved August 14, 2023.
- ^ "Hale Boggs — Missing in Alaska". Famous Missing Aircraft. Check-Six. Retrieved 2007-04-15.
- ^ a b National Transportation Safety Board Report NTSB-AAR-73-1, January 31, 1973; Aircraft Accident Report, Pan Alaska Airways, Ltd., Cessna 310C, N1812H, Missing Between Anchorage and Juneau, Alaska, October 16, 1972
- ^ "Alaska Jury Declares Bogg Died on Flight". The New York Times. February 8, 1973. p. 46.
- ^ "New Podcast 'Missing In Alaska' Takes On 50-Year-Old Mysterious Plane Disappearance". Insideradio.com. 21 May 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- ^ Brean, Henry (17 June 2020). "New podcast explores Alaskan mystery with Tucson twist". Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- ^ Boggs, Lindy, with Katherine Hatch. Washington Through a Purple Veil: Memoirs of a Southern Woman. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1994.
- ^ Ferrell, Thomas H., and Judith Haydel. "Hale and Lindy Boggs: Louisiana's National Democrats". Louisiana History 35 (Fall 1994): 389-402.
- ^ Boggs, Lindy, with Katherine Hatch. Washington Through a Purple Veil: Memoirs of a Southern Woman. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1994.
- ^ Lewis, Michael. Having Her Say at The See. (2000, June 4). New York Times, p. 662.
- ^ Bobby Allyn and Scott Neuman, "Cokie Roberts, Pioneering Female Journalist Who Helped Shape NPR, Dies at 75," NPR, September 17, 2019, 10:31 AM ET
- ISBN 9780307346858.
- Boulard, Garry (2001), The Big Lie - Hale Boggs, Lucille May Grace and Leander Perez in 1951-52
- Maney, Patrick J. "Hale Boggs: The Southerner as National Democrat" in Raymond W Smock and Susan W Hammond, eds. Masters of the House: Congressional Leadership Over Two Centuries (1998) pp 33–62.
- Strahan, Randall. "Thomas Brackett Reed and the Rise of Party Government" in Raymond W Smock and Susan W Hammond, eds. Masters of the House: Congressional Leadership Over Two Centuries (1998) pp 223–259.
- "Boggs, Thomas Hale Sr. (1914–1972)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 2007-04-15.
External links
- United States Congress. "Hale Boggs (id: B000594)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Transcript, Hale Boggs Oral History Interview, 3/13/69, by T. H. Baker, Internet Copy, LBJ Library. at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2001-11-26)
- "Hale Boggs — Freedom of Information Privacy Act page". Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- Hale Boggs Telex — Debunked
- Oral History Interviews with Hale Boggs, from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2001-11-26)
- Appearances on C-SPAN