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Roberts was born in New Orleans. [7] She received the nickname Cokie from her brother, Tommy, who as a child could not pronounce her given name, Corinne. [8]Her parents were Lindy Boggs and Hale Boggs, each of whom served for decades as Democratic members of the House of Representatives from Louisiana; Lindy succeeded Hale after his plane disappeared over Alaska in 1972. [9]
Hale and Lindy Boggs had four children: Cokie Roberts, [34] who was a U.S. TV and public-radio journalist and the wife of journalist Steven V. Roberts, Thomas Hale Boggs Jr., who was a Washington, D.C.–based lawyer and lobbyist, Barbara Boggs Sigmund, who served as mayor of Princeton, New Jersey, and William Robertson Boggs, who died as an ...
Rebecca Boggs Roberts (born 1970) is the Curator of Programming at Planet Word, and was formerly an American journalist.She was one of the hosts of POTUS '08 on XM Radio, which offered live daily coverage of the 2008 presidential election.
Boggs was a member of Sigma Gamma Rho, one of the four traditionally African-American sororities in the United States. [18] The Boggs Center for Energy and Biotechnology Building at Tulane is named in her honor. [19] Boggs and her daughter, Cokie Roberts, received the Foremother Award from the National Center for Health Research in 2013. [20]
Paula Boggs (born 1959) is an American attorney, musician, public speaker, and former military officer. [1] She is the leader of the Paula Boggs Band . Boggs is the founder of Boggs Media, LLC, a business that manages her music, speaking, and other creative business activities. [ 2 ]
Children: 2, including Mattie Larson [2] [3] Gail Charlene Boggs (born August 10, 1951) is an American actress. She played Louise Brown in the 1990 film Ghost. Career
Here's everything you need to know about Oppenheimer's two children and what has happened in the 56 years since their father's death. J. Robert Oppenheimer's wife, Katherine, daughter Kit and son ...
To them were born five children–William R., Jr., a mining engineer who was murdered in Mexico in 1907; Elizabeth McCaw, John Symington, Edith Allston, and Henry Patterson Boggs. [2] (For some unknown reason a sixth child, Archibald Boggs (1860–1881) was omitted from the biographical data published for General Boggs.)