Vastly influential in her own right, Corinne Claiborne "Lindy" Boggs (3/13/1916) was born on Brunswick Plantation, Louisiana. She was elected to the United States House of Representatives succeeding her husband, Majority Leader Hale Boggs, who died in a plane crash over Alaska. Once elected, she served nine terms in the House of Representatives.
Among her many important contributions to the people of the United States, she was responsible for women having access to credit independent of their husbands. This was especially beneficial to widows who were in need of funds after their husbands' deaths. Not only that, but she was alsot hte first woman to become a chairperson of the Democratic National Convention. More rectly, President Clinton honored Lindy Boggs by naming her the ambassador to the Holy See, Vatican City.