2: Former Congresswoman LINDY BOGGS, who became Louisiana's first woman member of Congress in 1972. She was elected after her husband, then House majority leader Hale Boggs, died in a plane crash. BOGGS was an advocate for civil rights and women's issues before her retirement in 1990. She is the mother of NPR and ABC-TV's Cokie Roberts, Washington lobbyist Thomas Hale Boggs, and the late Barbara Sigmund, who was mayor of Princeton, New Jersey. BOGGS has written her autobiography, "Washington Through a Purple Veil: Memoirs of a Southern Woman" (Harcourt, Brace & Company).
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