Lindy Boggs - New Orleans, LA
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N 29° 56.859 W 090° 03.808
15R E 783433 N 3316612
One of dozens of plaques honoring prominent citizens of New Orleans located outside of the entrance to the Hilton Hotel.
Waymark Code: WMQ35N
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 12/10/2015
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All of the dozens of citizen memorials here have a relief panel which depicts musicians on a keyboard, horn and bass and the name of the person honored. This one reads:
"LINDY BOGGS
GOVERNMENT"
Wikipedia (
visit link) informs us:
"Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs, usually known as Lindy Boggs (March 13, 1916 – July 27, 2013), was a United States political figure 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 female 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."