Lindy Boggs
Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs, usually known as Lindy Boggs( March 13, 1916 – July 27, 2013), was a United States 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 United States House of Representatives Hale Boggs, and the mother of four children: Cokie Roberts( a television journalist); Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr.( a 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.
Boggs is one of only two female U.S. Representatives from Louisiana, the other being Catherine Small Long.
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Thomas Hale
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Thomas Hale Boggs Jr.
Thomas Hale "Tommy" Boggs Jr. (September 18, 1940 – September 15, 2014) was an American lawyer and lobbyist based in Washington,
D.C.
Boggs was the son of Thomas Hale Boggs (1914–1972), a United States Representative from Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, and Lindy Boggs (1916–2013), her husband's successor in the 2nd congressional district and thereafter U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican under U.S. President Bill Clinton.
His siblings included journalist and news commentator Cokie Roberts (1943–2019) and Barbara Boggs Sigmund (1939–1990), who served as the mayor of Princeton, New Jersey.
Boggs, a Democrat, began his legal practice in New Orleans and later moved to Washington, D.C., to become a lawyer and lobbyist.
He joined the law/lobbyist firm of James R. Patton Jr., which today is known as Squire Patton Boggs.
Boggs was the firm's senior partner.
With Patton Boggs, he was known for lobbying on major issues, including:
In 1970, Boggs unsuccessfully ran for the United States House of Representatives from Maryland's 8th congressional district against incumbent Republican Gilbert Gude.
The district is currently represented by the Democrat Jamie Raskin.
Boggs represented dozens of corporations, trade associations, and state and foreign governments.
In 2013, "The American Lawyer" magazine named Boggs one of the "Top 50 Innovators in Big Law in the Last 50 Years.
The National Law Journal" termed him one of the most influential lawyers in the nation.
Thomas Hale (agriculturist)
Thomas Hale( died c. 1759) was an 18th- century British writer on agriculture, known from his" A Compleat Body of Husbandry", 1756.
Ross Boggs
A. Ross Boggs, Jr. is a former Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives, who served as minority leader.
He is the brother of former state Representative and state Senator Robert Boggs.
Gilbert Gude
Gilbert Gude( March 9, 1923 – June 7, 2007) was a U.S. Congressman who represented the Maryland's 8th congressional district from January 3, 1967, to January 3, 1977.
Gude was born in Washington, D.C., and was educated in the public schools of Rockville, Maryland, and Washington.
He attended the University of Maryland, obtained his B.S. degree from Cornell University in 1948, and his M.A. degree from George Washington University for Public Administration in 1958.
He later taught history and environment courses at Georgetown University and served on the Board of Trustees for The Catholic University of America.
During World War II, Gude served in the Pacific Theater as a part of the United States Army Medical Department from 1943 to 1946.
After the war, Gude was appointed to the Maryland House of Delegates in January 1953, and was later elected to the House of Delegates in 1954, serving until 1958.
He was elected to the Republican State Central Committee in 1958, and elected to the Maryland State Senate in 1962, serving until 1967.
Gude accomplished numerous things while in office, including sponsoring legislation that led to the building of the Washington Metro system, leading efforts to save the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and create the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, and supporting D.C. home rule.
He was a delegate to the Republican State convention in 1952, and a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1968.
Gude was elected as a Republican to the 90th Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1967, until January 3, 1977, but was not a candidate for reelection in 1976 to the 95th Congress.
In 1970, he defeated the Democrat Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr., later a prominent lawyer and lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and the son of Gude's colleague, U.S. Representative Hale Boggs and then Lindy Boggs of Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, based about New Orleans.
During his tenure in Congress, Gude served on the Government Operations Committee and its Conservation, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee; the House Environmental Study; the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission; the Select Committee on Aging and its Retirement Income and Employment Subcommittee; and the House District of Columbia Committee and its Commerce, Housing and Transportation Subcommittee.
Gude was a congressional observer at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972, and later as director of the Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service from 1977 to 1985.
Gude served as a member and is former chairman of the Consultative Committee of Experts, International Centre for Parliamentary Documentation of the Inter- Parliamentary Union of Geneva.
Gude died on June 7, 2007, from congestive heart failure in Washington, D.C.
He was survived by his widow, Jane, five children( Adrienne, Daniel, Sharon, Brett and Gregory) and three grandchildren( Edward W. Lewis IV, Alexandra Morgan Lewis, and Michael Gude).
Hale Boggs
Thomas Hale Boggs Sr.
(February 15, 1914 – disappeared October 16, 1972) was an American Democratic politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Orleans, Louisiana.
He was the House majority leader and a member of the Warren Commission.
In 1972, while he was still majority leader, the twin engine airplane in which Boggs was travelling with congressman Nick Begich, of Alaska, and two others, disappeared while flying from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska.
Peter Gravesen
He is the younger brother of Thomas Gravesen.
Hale Boggs Federal Complex
The Hale Boggs Federal Complex, also known as the Hale Boggs Federal Building- Courthouse, is a historic building in New Orleans, Louisiana.
It was built in 1962.
It was designed in the Modernist architectural style.
It was named in honor of Democratic Congressman Hale Boggs.

Question: Where did Thomas Hale Boggs Jr.'s father die?
Answer: Alaska