Lindy Boggs

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Lindy Boggs
William J. Jefferson
Personal details
Born
Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne

(1916-03-13)March 13, 1916
New Roads, Louisiana, U.S.
DiedJuly 27, 2013(2013-07-27) (aged 97)
Chevy Chase, Maryland, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
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​
(m. 1938; died 1972)​
Children4, including Barbara, Tommy, and Cokie
EducationTulane University (BA)

Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs (March 13, 1916 – July 27, 2013) was a politician who served as a member of the

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.

Personal life

Boggs was born as Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne on March 13, 1916, on the Brunswick Plantation near

Pointe Coupee Parish in South Louisiana, the daughter of Corinne Morrison and Roland Philemon Claiborne, a prominent lawyer.[3][4] Claiborne's father died when she was just two, but her resemblance to her father earned her the nickname "Lindy," short for the female version of Roland, "Rolinde."[5]

She graduated from

lobbyist); Barbara Boggs Sigmund, a mayor of Princeton, New Jersey,[8] 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.[9]

Career

Lindy Boggs, 1975 Congressional Portrait

In 1940, Hale Boggs won a seat in the House of Representatives and the Boggs family relocated to Washington, D.C. Boggs lost his 1942 re-election bid, but subsequently returned to win a seat as the representative of Jefferson Parish in 1947 where he served until his death.[5]

On October 16, 1972, Representative Hale Boggs' twin-engine

Democrat for her husband's vacated seat in Louisiana's 2nd congressional district
, in New Orleans.

External videos
video icon Fresh Air Remembers Former Louisiana Congresswoman Lindy Boggs, Fresh Air[12]
Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs, painting by Ned Bittinger, 2004

Boggs was elected to a full term in 1974 with 82 percent of the vote and was re-elected seven times thereafter until she vacated her office in January 1991.

William J. Jefferson
.

Accomplishments

She was influential in composing the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974. When the Banking committee marked up the ECOA, she added the provision banning discrimination due to sex or marital status without informing the other members of the committee beforehand, personally inserting the language on her own and photocopying new versions of the bill.[14] She then told the other committee members, "Knowing the members composing this committee as well as I do, I'm sure it was just an oversight that we didn't have 'sex' or 'marital status' included. I've taken care of that, and I trust it meets with the committee's approval."[14] The committee unanimously approved the bill.[14]

Boggs was the first woman to preside over a national political convention, specifically the 1976 Democratic National Convention.[14]

Lindy Boggs in 1984

In 1991, she was awarded the

American Catholics.[15]

In 1994, Boggs was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield, one year after her husband had been among the original thirteen inductees.

In 1997, President

ambassador to the Holy See
, a position she held until 2001.

In 2005, Boggs's home on Bourbon Street in New Orleans' French Quarter sustained moderate wind damage from Hurricane Katrina. [citation needed] In 2006, she was awarded the Congressional Distinguished Service Award for her time in the House of Representatives.

Boggs was a member of Sigma Gamma Rho, one of the four traditionally African-American sororities in the United States.[16]

The Boggs Center for Energy and Biotechnology Building at Tulane is named in her honor.[17]

Boggs and her daughter, Cokie Roberts, received the Foremother Award from the National Center for Health Research in 2013.[18]

Death

Boggs died of natural causes at her home in Chevy Chase, Maryland on July 27, 2013, at age 97.[19] A funeral Mass was held on August 1, 2013 at St. Louis Cathedral at 615 Pere Antoine Alley in New Orleans. Interment followed later in the day at St. Mary's Cemetery in New Roads, Louisiana.[20] Governor Bobby Jindal ordered all U.S. and state flags in Louisiana to fly at half staff until August 2 in Mrs. Boggs' memory.[21]

See also

References

  1. ^ "IPTV website". Archived from the original on September 14, 2008.
  2. ^ She was followed in that capacity by Martha Layne Collins in 1984, Ann Richards in 1992, and Nancy Pelosi in 2008.
  3. ^ "Tulane Online Exhibits". exhibits.tulane.edu.
  4. ISBN 9780160767531 – via Google Books.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
    )
  5. ^ a b "BOGGS, Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives". history.house.gov. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  6. ^ "Collection: Marie Corinne Morrisson Claiborne "Lindy" Boggs papers | Archives and Special Collections at Tulane University". archives.tulane.edu. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  7. ^
    ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  8. ProQuest 292100299. Archived from the original
    on May 20, 2021. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
  9. JSTOR 4233145
    .
  10. ^ "History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives, "The Disappearance of Majority Leader Hale Boggs of Louisiana and Representative Nicholas Begich of Alaska"". /history.house.gov. Retrieved July 28, 2013.
  11. ^ "Hale Boggs - Missing in Alaska". /check-six.com. Retrieved July 28, 2013.
  12. ^ "Fresh Air Remembers Former Louisiana Congresswoman Lindy Boggs". Fresh Air. NPR. July 29, 2013. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
  13. ^ Louisiana Secretary of State, Primary election returns, September 1980
  14. ^ a b c d e "Former Congresswoman and Ambassador Lindy Boggs Dies at 97 - ABC News". Abcnews.go.com. July 27, 2013. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
  15. ^ "Recipients | The Laetare Medal". University of Notre Dame. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
  16. ^ "Sigma Gamma Rho honors Lindy Boggs" (Press release).
  17. ^ "Tulane University - Boggs Center for Energy and Biotechnology".
  18. ^ "Foremother and Health Policy Hero Awards Luncheon". May 7, 2018.
  19. ^ "Former Rep. Lindy Boggs, champion of civil rights, dies; also was ambassador to the Vatican - The Washington Post". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on July 27, 2013. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
  20. ^ "Corinne "Lindy" Morrison Claiborne Boggs". obits.nola.com. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
  21. ^ "Jindal orders flags at half staff in honor of Lindy Boggs, July 29, 2013". katc.com. Archived from the original on July 31, 2013. Retrieved July 31, 2013.

Further reading

  • 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.
  • Tyler, Pamela. "Silk Stockings & Ballot Boxes: Women & Politics in New Orleans, 1920 - 1965". University of Georgia Press, 1996.
  • Carrick, Bess. "Lindy Boggs: Steel and Velvet". Documentary film chronicles Mrs. Boggs' career in politics and features Cokie & Steve Roberts, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Rep. John Lewis, former House Speaker Tom Foley, and scholars, Dr. Patrick Maney, & Dr. Pamela Tyler. Produced by Bess Carrick with Louisiana Public Broadcasting, 2006. Airdate 2006–present, nationwide via PBS-Plus.
  • 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.

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Louisiana's 2nd congressional district

1973–1991 		Succeeded by
William Jefferson
New office Chairperson of the Joint Bicentennial Committee
1975–1977 		Position abolished
Chairperson of the House Bicentennial Commission
1985–1989
Party political offices
Preceded by Permanent Chairperson of the Democratic National Convention
1976 		Succeeded by
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United States Ambassador to the Holy See

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