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Boggs, Lindy, 1916-2013

LC control no.n 86034219
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingBoggs, Lindy, 1916-2013
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Variant(s)Boggs, Corinne Claiborne, 1916-2013
Claiborne, Lindy, 1916-2013
Claiborne, Corinne, 1916-2013
Claiborne, Marie Corinne Morrison, 1916-2013
Claiborne, Rolindy, 1916-2013
Associated placeLa.
Birth date19160313
Death date20130727
Place of birthPointe CoupeĢe Parish, La.
Place of deathChevy Chase, Md.
AffiliationUnited States. Congress. House
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupationLegislator
Found inNUCMC data from Loyola Univ. Lib. for Landrieu, M. Papers, 1966-1978 (Lindy Boggs; La. Congresswoman)
NUCMC files (Boggs, Lindy, 1916-; Boggs, Corinne Claiborne; Corinne Claiborne; Lindy Claiborne)
New York times (online), viewed July 29, 2013 (in obituary published July 27: Lindy Boggs; b. Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne, Mar. 13, 1916, Pointe Coupee Parish, La.; the name Lindy was a shortening of Rolindy, the nickname she was given by a nurse, who thought she looked more like her father, Roland Philemon Claiborne, than her mother; m. Thomas Hale Boggs, 1938 (presumed dead, 1972); d. Saturday [July 27, 2013], Chevy Chase, Md., aged 97; succeeded her husband in the House of Representatives after his plane crashed in Alaska and went on to serve nine terms on Capitol Hill, notably as a champion of women's rights)
Associated languageeng
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