Lindy Boggs, the first woman elected to Congress from Louisiana, has died. She was elected after her husband, Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr., a member of the House of Representatives, was lost and presumed dead in an Alaskan plane crash. She served from 1973 to 1991.
Corinne Claiborne Boggs, known as Lindy, was a supporter in her time in Congress of civil rights and women's rights. From a family with a long political history, she was also the mother of journalist and commentator Cokie Roberts. She also served from 1997 to 2001 as the U.S ambassador to the Vatican, appointed by President Bill Clinton.
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