1. Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs was a politician who served as a member of the US House of Representatives and later as United States Ambassador to the Holy See.
21 Facts About Lindy Boggs
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Lindy Boggs was the first woman elected to Congress from Louisiana.
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Lindy Boggs was a permanent chairwoman of the 1976 Democratic National Convention, which met in New York City to nominate the Carter-Mondale ticket.
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Lindy Boggs was the first woman to preside over a major party convention.
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Lindy Boggs was the widow of former Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives Hale Lindy Boggs.
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Lindy Boggs is one of three female US 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.
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Lindy Boggs was born as Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne on March 13,1916, on the Brunswick Plantation near New Roads in Pointe Coupee Parish in South Louisiana, the daughter of Corinne Morrison and Roland Philemon Claiborne, a prominent lawyer.
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Lindy Boggs graduated from Newcomb College, the women's college at Tulane University in New Orleans in 1935.
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In 1934, Lindy Claiborne met Thomas Hale Boggs at Tulane where the pair worked as editors for the school newspaper, The Hullabaloo.
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Lindy Boggs attended Tulane Law School and earned his law degree in 1937 while Claiborne worked as a school teacher after the pair graduated from Tulane.
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Claiborne and Lindy Boggs were married on January 22,1938 in New Roads, Louisiana.
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Lindy Boggs was helping a colleague, Nicholas Begich, father of future US Senator Mark Begich of Alaska, to campaign for reelection.
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Lindy Boggs ran successfully as a Democrat for her husband's vacated seat in Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, in New Orleans.
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Lindy 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.
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Lindy Boggs announced her retirement from public office in 1990.
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Lindy Boggs was influential in composing the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974.
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Lindy Boggs was the first woman to preside over a national political convention, specifically the 1976 Democratic National Convention.
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Lindy Boggs believed that her pro-life views was one of the main reasons why she wasn't chosen as running mate for Walter Mondale for the 1984 US presidential election, despite being briefly considered.
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In 1994, Lindy 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.
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Lindy Boggs was a member of Sigma Gamma Rho, one of the four traditionally African-American sororities in the United States.
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Lindy Boggs died of natural causes at her home in Chevy Chase, Maryland on July 27,2013, at age 97.