Biography

Hale Boggs 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. In an enormous search effort, rescue aircraft of the United States Coast Guard, Navy, Army, Air Force, Civil Air Patrol and civilians were deployed to look for the four men and the missing Cessna 310. On November 24, 1972, after proceeding for 39 days, the air search was suspended. Neither the airplane nor any of its four occupants were ever found.
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U.S congressional representative from Louisiana (1941-1943, 1947-1973).

Father of Cokie Roberts, Barbara Boggs-Sigmund and Tommy Boggs (Thomas Hale Boggs Jr.).

In October 1972, he was on a flight from Anchorage, Alaska to Juneau, when the plane disappeared. In November he was reelected to another term as a U.S. Congressional representative from Louisiana. His body, as well as others on the plane, was never found. A Congressional resolution passed on 3 January 1973 declared his seat vacant, and a special election was held to fill the vacancy.

He was the son of Claire Josephine (Hale) and William Robertson Boggs.