What is Hale Boggs?
{{Infobox Officeholder |name = Hale Boggs |image = Hale Boggs.png |office = [[Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives|House Majority Leader]] |1blankname = Speaker |1namedata = [[Carl Albert]] |deputy = Tip O'Neill |term_start = January 3, 1971 |term_end = January 3, 1973<ref>As Boggs was missing and not officially declared dead until January, he formally retained an office after his disappearance.</ref> |predecessor = Carl Albert |successor = [[Tip O'Neill]] |office1 = [[Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives|House Majority Whip]] |leader1 = [[John William McCormack]] |term_start1 = January 10, 1962 |term_end1 = January 3, 1971 |predecessor1 = [[Carl Albert]] |successor1 = [[Tip O'Neill]] |state2 = [[Louisiana]] |district2 = {{ushr|LA|2|2nd}} |term_start2 = January 3, 1947 |term_end2 = January 3, 1973 |predecessor2 = [[Paul H. Maloney]] |successor2 = [[Lindy Boggs]] |term_start3 = January 3, 1941 |term_end3 = January 3, 1943 |predecessor3 = [[Paul H. Maloney]] |successor3 = [[Paul H. Maloney]] |birth_name = Thomas Hale Boggs |birth_date = {{birth date|1914|2|15}} |birth_place = [[Long Beach, Mississippi]], [[United States|U.S.]] |death_date = Disappeared {{death date and age|1972|10|16|1914|2|15}} |death_place = [[Alaska]], [[United States|U.S.]]<br>[[Declared death in absentia|Declared dead ''in absentia'']]<br />{{Death date|1972|12|29}} |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] |spouse = [[Lindy Boggs|Lindy Claiborne]] |children = [[Cokie Roberts|Cokie]]<br>[[Thomas Hale Boggs Jr.|Tommy]]<br>[[Barbara Boggs Sigmund|Barbara]] |education = [[Tulane University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]]) }} '''Thomas Hale Boggs Sr.''' (February 15, 1914 – disappeared October 16, 1972) was an American [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] [[politician]] and a member of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] from [[New Orleans, Louisia