Biography

Lindy Boggs was born on March 13, 1916 in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, USA. She was a writer, known for The Vatican Revealed (1999) and Inside America (1965). She was married to Hale Boggs. She died on July 27, 2013 in Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA.

US ambassador to the Holy See (Vatican), 1997-2001.

Democrat Congressional representative from Louisiana, 20 March 1973 - 3 January 1991. Her husband, Hale Boggs, was serving as a US congressman from Louisiana, when a plane in which he was a passenger crashed in Alaska on 16 October 1972. Neither the plane nor the bodies of any crash victims were ever found. Boggs was reelected to his Congressional seat in November, while missing. Congress declared the seat vacant on 3 January 1973, and Lindy won a special election to fill her husband's Congressional seat. She did not seek reelection in 1990.

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

She was the daughter of Martha Corinne (Morrison) and Roland Philemon Claiborne.