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Lindy Leveaux-Agricole is a Seychellois javelin thrower. Her personal best throw is 57.86 metres, achieved in June 2005 in Victoria, Seychelles. This is the national record. She also holds national records in the shot put and discus throw.
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Lindy Elkins-Tanton is an American planetary scientist and professor. Her research concerns terrestrial planetary evolution. She is the Principal Investigator of NASA's Psyche mission to explore the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche, Arizona State University Vice President of the Interplanetary Initiative, and co-founder of Beagle Learning, a tech company training and measuring collaborative problem-solving and critical thinking.
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Lindy Booth is a Canadian actress. She played Riley Grant on the Disney Channel series The Famous Jett Jackson (and Agent Hawk in the show-within-a-show Silverstone), Claudia on Relic Hunter, and A.J. Butterfield on the NBC series The Philanthropist. She then played Cassandra Cillian on the TNT series The Librarians (2014–2018).
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Lindy Lee is an Australian painter and sculptor of Chinese heritage, whose work blends the cultures of Australia and her ancestral China and explores her Buddhist faith. She has exhibited widely, and is particularly known for her large works of public art, such as several iterations of The Life of Stars at various locations in China and on the forecourt of the Art Gallery of South Australia, and The Garden of Cloud and Stone in Sydney's Chinatown district.
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Corinne Claiborne Boggs was a member of the United States Congress and an ambassador to the Vatican during the Clinton administration. She was known personally and professionally as Lindy Boggs.
Lindy Claiborne was born in 1916 on the Brunswick Plantation in South Louisiana, the daughter of a prominent family. She earned her nickname Lindy due to her resemblance to her father, Roland; Roland died when she was just two.
Claiborne graduated from the women's college of Tulane University in 1935.
Claiborne met her future husband, Thomas Hale Boggs, known as Hale, at Tulane in 1934 when the pair worked as editors for the school's newspaper. Hale Boggs earned a law degree from Tulane in 1937 while Claiborne worked as a school teacher. The pair married in January 1938.
The Boggs had four children. The most famous was Cokie Roberts, a well-regarded political journalist with long tenures at NPR, PBS, and ABC. The others were William, who died as an infant in December 1946; Thomas, Jr., a prominent lobbyist, and Barbara, who served as mayor of Princeton, New Jersey and ran for the US Senate in 1982.
Hale Boggs ran for the House of Representatives in 1940, and the young family followed him to Washington, D.C. Lindy Boggs first arrived in Washington, D.C. as a political wife in 1941. She was just 24 years old and her husband, the newly-elected congressman Hale Boggs, was just 27 years old. While Hale Boggs was not the youngest member of Congress at the time of his election, he was certainly among the youngest. Lindy Boggs' 1994 memoir includes many stories of the young couple attempting to navigate their road in an austere capital. Boggs lost his reelection in 1942, but ran again in 1946, and re-won his seat. He would serve in the seat for the rest of his life.
The 1950s proved consequential for Hale Boggs. In 1951, he made an ill-fated run for the Louisiana governorship where he was accused of communist sympathies. He also joined 101 fellow congressmen (99 southern "Dixiecrats" and two Republicans) in signing the Declaration of Constitutional Principles, in opposition to racial integration in public places. The drafting of the document was in response to the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education. Later Lindy Boggs would become exceedingly popular with Black constituents.
In the 1960s, though, Hale Boggs rose in the House Democratic leadership. He served on the Warren Commission, investigating the assassination of Pres. John F. Kennedy. He became majority whip in 1962 and in 1971 was selected House majority leader. One of his most significant moments as majority leader came when he eviscerated J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director, in two House floor speeches. Pres. Richard Nixon declared he could no longer take counsel from Boggs after that; in Nixon's White House tapes, Rep. Gerald Ford (R-MI) is heard considering Boggs' vices, such as alcohol and pills.
On October 16, 1972, Majority Leader Boggs' twin-engine Cessna plane disappeared over Alaska. Boggs was helping a colleague, Rep. Nicholas Begich (D-AK) to campaign for reelection. Boggs was declared dead a little over a month after the plane’s disappearance, though the plane has never been found. (At least two podcasts have addressed the disappearance over the last few years.)
Lindy Boggs served for nearly three decades as her husband's chief political confidante, and an important strategist and surrogate. She set up his district office in New Orleans, ran his reelection campaigns, and regularly acted as a political surrogate. "She really knew the district better than he did,” Cokie Roberts said in 2007. "She knew the growth in the district and the neighborhoods in the district and all that because, by then, he had gone into the leadership and was focusing a lot of his energies on the leadership."
The first bill that the House passed in 1973, House Resolution 1, officially recognized Hale Boggs' death and created the need for a special election. Lindy Boggs ran successfully as a Democrat for her husband's vacated seat in Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, in New Orleans. (The recently deceased Rep. Don Young (R-AK) was elected in the same mandated special election.)
Boggs received strong support from her late husband’s colleagues. "She’s the only widow I know who is really qualified—damn qualified—to take over," said the cantankerous Armed Services Chairman Rep. Felix Edward Hébert (D-LA).
Shortly after the election, when asked by a reporter from the Christian Science Monitor, if she ever had doubts about running for her husband’s seat, Boggs replied, "The only thing that almost stopped me was that I didn’t know how I could do it without a wife."
In 1977, Boggs was a founding member of the Congresswomen's Caucus, eventually serving as its secretary. Unlike other colleagues, she did not view the caucus as a mechanism for battling discriminatory institutional practices; in fact, Boggs later claimed that she had never experienced discrimination as a woman in the House. That said, she considered herself a champion of women's issues, particularly on economic issues versus social issues. "What happened to her, as well as most other women who went to Congress in those early days," Cokie Roberts said, "was that they found themselves representing not just the Second Congressional District of Louisiana, but the women of America."
The most significant women's empowerment bill Boggs experienced related to the Equal Credit opportunity Act of 1974. Boggs noted it secured people from discrimination on the basis of "race and age, and their status as veterans." Her experience as a newly widowed woman seeking credit and managing her own finances convinced her that the words "or sex or marital status" should be added to that provision. Without informing the other Members, she inserted those words, walked to the photocopying machine, and made copies for her colleagues. "Knowing the Members composing this committee as well as I do, I’m sure it was just an oversight that we didn’t have ‘sex’ or ‘marital status’ included," Boggs said after distributing the revisions. "I’ve taken care of that, and I trust it meets with the committee’s approval." It did, passing unanimously 47 to 0.
Boggs did diverge with women's activists over the topic of abortion. Boggs was a devout Roman Catholic, and was personally opposed to abortion. She voted in 1977 for the Hyde Amendment, which barred Medicaid funding for abortions. Of the 18 women in the House at the time, six voted for the amendment. In general, though, Boggs was supportive of family planning legislation.
In 1976, Boggs became the first woman to chair a national political convention.
In 1984, when "Team A" was vetting candidates to serve as a viable woman vice-presidential candidate, Boggs was passed over because of her general opposition to abortion. Boggs was the second most senior woman in Congress at the time. "[The party’s] confidence was pleasing, but I knew that my age and my feelings regarding abortion [...] would preclude any serious consideration of me," Boggs wrote in her 1994 memoir. "I stayed within the mainstream of the consideration and talked to various groups, never about myself but always about the fact that a woman could be President or Vice President. I wanted people to remain interested in the possibility." Privately, though, Boggs was reportedly more annoyed. Her 2013 obituary in the Washington Post noted her irritation over being passed over, particularly considering the maelstrom that encompassed Rep. Geraldine Ferraro (D-NY).
Boggs ran for Congress nine times. Only in four of those elections did she have an opponent in the general election. The toughest challenge came in 1984 Democratic primary, relating to district reapportionment. Boggs became a white woman representing a primarily Black district. Boggs faced Judge Israel M. Augustine, Jr., a close family friend whom Hale Boggs had helped to make the first Black state district judge in Louisiana history. The candidates agreed on most every issue, but the topic of race colored the campaign. Augustine argued that the majority-Black district should have a Black representative. Boggs, had a strong support group among New Orleans Black women's groups in particular. Boggs ended up winning by some 21 points, becoming the only white member of Congress representing a majority-Black district. One observer noted to the New York Times a few years later than she maintained extremely high approval ratings among Black voters in her district, higher than among white voters.
(Analysts might find a comparison here between the Boggs/Israel matchup and the matchup between Ayanna Pressley and incumbent Rep. Mike Capuano (D-MA). The pair had virtually identical policy platforms, but Pressley, a Black woman, argued that the district, which was majority-Black, should have a Black representative. She won, though, whereas Israel lost.)
In 1990, Boggs announced her retirement from Congress. Her daughter Barbara, then serving as the mayor of Princeton, New Jersey, was dying of cancer and Boggs wanted to spend time with her. Barbara sadly died of the disease in October 1990.
In 1997, Pres. Bill Clinton appointed Boggs, then 81, to serve as the US Ambassador to the Vatican. She served until 2001.
In July 1991, a room off Statuary Hall was named after her, the Lindy Claiborne Boggs Congressional Women's Reading Room, in July 1991. She also honored for her "extraordinary service" in 2002 upon the 25th anniversary of the Congressional Women's Caucus. She also received the Congressional Distinguished Service Award in 2006.
Boggs died at age 97 in 2013.
She was survived by two children. Son Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. died a year after his mother. Journalist daughter Cokie Roberts died of cancer in 2019 and had a funeral comparable to that of a beloved politician. Granddaughter Rebecca Roberts spent time working radio journalism.
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Lindy Claiborne was born in 1916 on the Brunswick Plantation in South Louisiana, the daughter of a prominent family. She earned her nickname Lindy due to her resemblance to her father, Roland; Roland died when she was just two.
Claiborne graduated from the women's college of Tulane University in 1935.
Claiborne met her future husband, Thomas Hale Boggs, known as Hale, at Tulane in 1934 when the pair worked as editors for the school's newspaper. Hale Boggs earned a law degree from Tulane in 1937 while Claiborne worked as a school teacher. The pair married in January 1938.
The Boggs had four children. The most famous was Cokie Roberts, a well-regarded political journalist with long tenures at NPR, PBS, and ABC. The others were William, who died as an infant in December 1946; Thomas, Jr., a prominent lobbyist, and Barbara, who served as mayor of Princeton, New Jersey and ran for the US Senate in 1982.
Hale Boggs ran for the House of Representatives in 1940, and the young family followed him to Washington, D.C. Lindy Boggs first arrived in Washington, D.C. as a political wife in 1941. She was just 24 years old and her husband, the newly-elected congressman Hale Boggs, was just 27 years old. While Hale Boggs was not the youngest member of Congress at the time of his election, he was certainly among the youngest. Lindy Boggs' 1994 memoir includes many stories of the young couple attempting to navigate their road in an austere capital. Boggs lost his reelection in 1942, but ran again in 1946, and re-won his seat. He would serve in the seat for the rest of his life.
The 1950s proved consequential for Hale Boggs. In 1951, he made an ill-fated run for the Louisiana governorship where he was accused of communist sympathies. He also joined 101 fellow congressmen (99 southern "Dixiecrats" and two Republicans) in signing the Declaration of Constitutional Principles, in opposition to racial integration in public places. The drafting of the document was in response to the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education. Later Lindy Boggs would become exceedingly popular with Black constituents.
In the 1960s, though, Hale Boggs rose in the House Democratic leadership. He served on the Warren Commission, investigating the assassination of Pres. John F. Kennedy. He became majority whip in 1962 and in 1971 was selected House majority leader. One of his most significant moments as majority leader came when he eviscerated J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director, in two House floor speeches. Pres. Richard Nixon declared he could no longer take counsel from Boggs after that; in Nixon's White House tapes, Rep. Gerald Ford (R-MI) is heard considering Boggs' vices, such as alcohol and pills.
On October 16, 1972, Majority Leader Boggs' twin-engine Cessna plane disappeared over Alaska. Boggs was helping a colleague, Rep. Nicholas Begich (D-AK) to campaign for reelection. Boggs was declared dead a little over a month after the plane’s disappearance, though the plane has never been found. (At least two podcasts have addressed the disappearance over the last few years.)
Lindy Boggs served for nearly three decades as her husband's chief political confidante, and an important strategist and surrogate. She set up his district office in New Orleans, ran his reelection campaigns, and regularly acted as a political surrogate. "She really knew the district better than he did,” Cokie Roberts said in 2007. "She knew the growth in the district and the neighborhoods in the district and all that because, by then, he had gone into the leadership and was focusing a lot of his energies on the leadership."
The first bill that the House passed in 1973, House Resolution 1, officially recognized Hale Boggs' death and created the need for a special election. Lindy Boggs ran successfully as a Democrat for her husband's vacated seat in Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, in New Orleans. (The recently deceased Rep. Don Young (R-AK) was elected in the same mandated special election.)
Boggs received strong support from her late husband’s colleagues. "She’s the only widow I know who is really qualified—damn qualified—to take over," said the cantankerous Armed Services Chairman Rep. Felix Edward Hébert (D-LA).
Shortly after the election, when asked by a reporter from the Christian Science Monitor, if she ever had doubts about running for her husband’s seat, Boggs replied, "The only thing that almost stopped me was that I didn’t know how I could do it without a wife."
In 1977, Boggs was a founding member of the Congresswomen's Caucus, eventually serving as its secretary. Unlike other colleagues, she did not view the caucus as a mechanism for battling discriminatory institutional practices; in fact, Boggs later claimed that she had never experienced discrimination as a woman in the House. That said, she considered herself a champion of women's issues, particularly on economic issues versus social issues. "What happened to her, as well as most other women who went to Congress in those early days," Cokie Roberts said, "was that they found themselves representing not just the Second Congressional District of Louisiana, but the women of America."
The most significant women's empowerment bill Boggs experienced related to the Equal Credit opportunity Act of 1974. Boggs noted it secured people from discrimination on the basis of "race and age, and their status as veterans." Her experience as a newly widowed woman seeking credit and managing her own finances convinced her that the words "or sex or marital status" should be added to that provision. Without informing the other Members, she inserted those words, walked to the photocopying machine, and made copies for her colleagues. "Knowing the Members composing this committee as well as I do, I’m sure it was just an oversight that we didn’t have ‘sex’ or ‘marital status’ included," Boggs said after distributing the revisions. "I’ve taken care of that, and I trust it meets with the committee’s approval." It did, passing unanimously 47 to 0.
Boggs did diverge with women's activists over the topic of abortion. Boggs was a devout Roman Catholic, and was personally opposed to abortion. She voted in 1977 for the Hyde Amendment, which barred Medicaid funding for abortions. Of the 18 women in the House at the time, six voted for the amendment. In general, though, Boggs was supportive of family planning legislation.
In 1976, Boggs became the first woman to chair a national political convention.
In 1984, when "Team A" was vetting candidates to serve as a viable woman vice-presidential candidate, Boggs was passed over because of her general opposition to abortion. Boggs was the second most senior woman in Congress at the time. "[The party’s] confidence was pleasing, but I knew that my age and my feelings regarding abortion [...] would preclude any serious consideration of me," Boggs wrote in her 1994 memoir. "I stayed within the mainstream of the consideration and talked to various groups, never about myself but always about the fact that a woman could be President or Vice President. I wanted people to remain interested in the possibility." Privately, though, Boggs was reportedly more annoyed. Her 2013 obituary in the Washington Post noted her irritation over being passed over, particularly considering the maelstrom that encompassed Rep. Geraldine Ferraro (D-NY).
Boggs ran for Congress nine times. Only in four of those elections did she have an opponent in the general election. The toughest challenge came in 1984 Democratic primary, relating to district reapportionment. Boggs became a white woman representing a primarily Black district. Boggs faced Judge Israel M. Augustine, Jr., a close family friend whom Hale Boggs had helped to make the first Black state district judge in Louisiana history. The candidates agreed on most every issue, but the topic of race colored the campaign. Augustine argued that the majority-Black district should have a Black representative. Boggs, had a strong support group among New Orleans Black women's groups in particular. Boggs ended up winning by some 21 points, becoming the only white member of Congress representing a majority-Black district. One observer noted to the New York Times a few years later than she maintained extremely high approval ratings among Black voters in her district, higher than among white voters.
(Analysts might find a comparison here between the Boggs/Israel matchup and the matchup between Ayanna Pressley and incumbent Rep. Mike Capuano (D-MA). The pair had virtually identical policy platforms, but Pressley, a Black woman, argued that the district, which was majority-Black, should have a Black representative. She won, though, whereas Israel lost.)
In 1990, Boggs announced her retirement from Congress. Her daughter Barbara, then serving as the mayor of Princeton, New Jersey, was dying of cancer and Boggs wanted to spend time with her. Barbara sadly died of the disease in October 1990.
In 1997, Pres. Bill Clinton appointed Boggs, then 81, to serve as the US Ambassador to the Vatican. She served until 2001.
In July 1991, a room off Statuary Hall was named after her, the Lindy Claiborne Boggs Congressional Women's Reading Room, in July 1991. She also honored for her "extraordinary service" in 2002 upon the 25th anniversary of the Congressional Women's Caucus. She also received the Congressional Distinguished Service Award in 2006.
Boggs died at age 97 in 2013.
She was survived by two children. Son Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. died a year after his mother. Journalist daughter Cokie Roberts died of cancer in 2019 and had a funeral comparable to that of a beloved politician. Granddaughter Rebecca Roberts spent time working radio journalism.
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Lindy Booth is a Canadian actress know for her roles as Riley Grant on The Famous Jett Jackson and Cassandra Cillian on The Librarians.
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Lindy Robbins is an American multi-platinum selling songwriter from Los Angeles, whose hits include Demi Lovato's "Skyscraper", Jason Derulo's "Want to Want Me", David Guetta's "Dangerous" featuring Sam Martin, MKTO's "Classic", Hot Chelle Rae's "Tonight, Tonight", Jason Derulo's "It Girl" and Astrid S' "Hurts So Good" as well as songs recorded by One Direction, 5 Seconds of Summer and Leona Lewis.
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Lindy Boggs (real name Marie Claiborne) is a former politician from Louisiana. She was a Congresswoman and an ambassador to the Holy See.
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Australian Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton was the mother of baby Azaria, who was killed by a dingo.
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The Lindy is a dance similar to the jitterbug (sometimes called lindy hop).
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Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, was nicknamed "Lucky Lindy."
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