Corinne Claiborne “Lindy” Boggs

Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr.

Barbara Boggs Sigmund

Cokie Roberts

Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr.

From the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress:

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Corinne Claiborne “Lindy” Boggs, (wife of Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr., great, great grandniece of John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne, great, great, great grandniece of Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne and William Charles Cole Claiborne, and great, great, great, great grandniece of Thomas Claiborne [1749-1812]), a Representative from Louisiana; born Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne, on Brunswick Plantation, Pointe Coupee Parish, La., March 13, 1916; graduated from St. Joseph’s Academy, New Roads, La., 1931; B.A., Sophie Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, La., 1935; teacher; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-third Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy pronounced by House Resolution 1, Ninety-third Congress, of the presumed death of Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr., and reelected to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 20, 1973-January 3, 1991); chair, Joint Committee on Bicentennial Arrangements (Ninety-fourth Congress); chair, Commission on the Bicentenary of the United States House of Representatives (Ninety-ninth through One Hundred First Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Second Congress in 1990; United States Ambassador to the Vatican, 1997-2001.
( 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. )

From the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress:

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Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr., (husband of Corinne Claiborne Boggs), a Representative from Louisiana; born in Long Beach, Harrison County, Miss., February 15, 1914; attended the public and parochial schools of Jefferson Parish, La.; was graduated from Tulane University, New Orleans, La., in 1935 and from the law department of the same university in 1937; was admitted to the bar in 1937 and commenced practice in New Orleans, La.; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1942; resumed the practice of law in New Orleans, La.; enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve in November 1943; was commissioned an ensign and attached to the Potomac River Naval Command and the United States Maritime Service until separated in January 1946; again elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses; chairman, Special Committee on Campaign Expenditures (Eighty-second Congress); majority whip (Eighty-seventh through Ninety-first Congresses), majority leader (Ninety-second Congress); disappeared while on a campaign flight from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska, October 16, 1972; served from January 3, 1947, until January 3, 1973, when he was presumed dead pursuant to House Resolution 1, Ninety-third Congress. ( Balias, Scott E. ‘’The Courage of His Convictions: Hale Boggs and Civil Rights.” Ph.D. diss., Tulane University, 1993; Kirn, Dorothy Nelson. “Hale Boggs: A Southern Spokesman for the Democratic Party.” Ph.D. diss., Louisiana State University, 1980.)

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Barbara Boggs Sigmund
In 1983, Princeton elected as mayor a Southern belle whose charm and grace and style and courage would make her one of the most beloved politicians of modern New Jersey history.

Barbara Boggs Sigmund had played in the halls of Congress as a child, worked as a letter writer for President John F. Kennedy and danced with President Lyndon Johnson at her wedding.

She was the daughter of powerful Democratic Rep. Hale Boggs of Louisiana, and a mother strong enough to move into her husband's congressional seat right after his untimely death.

As much for the sharp political instincts she brought to Princeton and Jersey, Sigmund is remembered for working up to the final day of an 8-year battle with the cancer that took her life at age 51 in 1990.

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Cokie Roberts serves as a senior news analyst for NPR, where she was the congressional correspondent for more than ten years. In addition to her work for NPR, Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News, serving as an on-air analyst for the network.

She was also the co-anchor of the ABC News' Sunday morning broadcast, This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts, from 1996-2002, while also serving as the chief congressional analyst for ABC News. She covered politics, Congress and public policy, reporting for World News Tonight and other ABC News broadcasts.

Roberts has won numerous awards at NPR, including the highest honor in public radio, the Edward R. Murrow Award. She was also the first broadcast journalist to win the highly prestigious Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for coverage of Congress. Roberts is the recipient of numerous other broadcasting awards, including a 1991 Emmy for her contribution to the ABC News special, "Who is Ross Perot?"

The 1964 Wellesley College graduate is the author of a number of bestsellers We Are Our Mother's Daughters, Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation and This Day Forward.

Along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, a professor at The George Washington University and contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report, Roberts writes a weekly column syndicated by United Media in major newspapers around the country. Her op-ed columns have appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and she has also written for The New York Times Magazine, USA Weekend Magazine and The Atlantic.

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Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. has been named to The National Law Journal’s list of the top 100 lawyers in the United States every year since the list’s inception. Since joining the firm of Patton Boggs LLP in 1966, Mr. Boggs has built the nation’s leading practice assisting clients in the ways that government and business intersect. He advises clients on a broad range of legislative and regulatory matters including tax, health care, trade and telecommunications. He is widely viewed as one of the most effective and creative lawyers in Washington as a result of his ability to analyze options, develop strategies, and present his clients’ positions in policy-making proceedings before the United States Congress, the White House and federal agencies.

Mr. Boggs has spent his entire career in Washington. Before joining the firm, he served as an economist for the Joint Economic Committee and in the Executive Office of the President as a coordinator for the National Defense Executive Reserve. He has been a member of the board of directors of Eastern Air Lines Incorporated, Washington BanCorporation and Chemfix Technologies, Inc., and served on the Board of Regents of Georgetown University. Mr. Boggs is chairman of Patton Boggs’ Executive Committee.

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