Lindy Boggs
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title:
Lindy Boggs
text:
Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs was a politician 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 woman to preside over a major party convention. Boggs was the widow of former Majority Leader of the Unit
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American politician (1916–2013)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Boggs
date created:
2004-07-02T17:08:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T14:07:04Z
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