What is Lindy Boggs?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Lindy Boggs |image = Ambassador Boggs.jpg |order = 5th |ambassador_from = United States |country = Holy See |president = [[Bill Clinton]]<br/>[[George W. Bush]] |term_start = December 16, 1997 |term_end = March 1, 2001 |predecessor = [[Raymond Flynn]] |successor = [[Jim Nicholson (Secretary of Veterans Affairs)|Jim Nicholson]] |state1 = [[Louisiana]] |district1 = {{ushr|LA|2|2nd}} |term_start1 = March 20, 1973 |term_end1 = January 3, 1991 |predecessor1 = [[Hale Boggs]] |successor1 = [[William J. Jefferson|William Jefferson]] |birth_name = Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne |birth_date = {{birth date|1916|3|13}} |birth_place = [[New Roads, Louisiana|New Roads]], [[Louisiana]], [[United States|U.S.]] |death_date = {{death date and age|2013|7|27|1916|3|13}} |death_place = [[Chevy Chase, Maryland|Chevy Chase]], [[Maryland]], [[United States|U.S.]] |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] |spouse = {{marriage|[[Hale Boggs]]|1938|1972|reason=his death}} |children = 4, including [[Barbara Boggs Sigmund|Barbara]], [[Thomas Hale Boggs Jr.|Tommy]], [[Cokie Roberts|Cokie]] |education = [[Tulane University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) }} '''Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs''' (March 13, 1916 &ndash; July 27, 2013) was an [[Americans|American]] [[politician]]. She served in the [[U.S. House of Representatives]]. She later served as the [[United States Ambassador to the Holy See]]. She was the first [[woman]] elected to Congress from [[Louisiana]]. She was a permanent chairwoman in the 1976 Democratic National Convention. She was the mother of television journalist, [[Cokie Roberts]]. ==Death== Boggs died on July 27, 2013 in [[Chevy Chase, Maryland]] from natural causes, aged 97.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/former-rep-lindy-boggs-champion-of-civil-rights-dies-also-was-ambassador-to-the-vatican/2013/07/27/1c077c98-f6ba-11e2-81fa-8e83b3864c36_print.html Former Rep. Lindy Bog