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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—LouisianaBOGGS, Thomas Hale, Sr.
(1914—1972)
BOGGS, Thomas Hale, Sr., (husband of Corinne Claiborne Boggs), a Representative from Louisiana; born in Long Beach, Harrison County, Miss., February 15, 1914; attended the public and parochial schools of Jefferson Parish, La.; was graduated from Tulane University, New Orleans, La., in 1935 and from the law department of the same university in 1937; was admitted to the bar in 1937 and commenced practice in New Orleans, La.; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1942; resumed the practice of law in New Orleans, La.; enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve in November 1943; was commissioned an ensign and attached to the Potomac River Naval Command and the United States Maritime Service until separated in January 1946; again elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses; chairman, Special Committee on Campaign Expenditures (Eighty-second Congress); majority whip (Eighty-seventh through Ninety-first Congresses), majority leader (Ninety-second Congress); disappeared while on a campaign flight from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska, October 16, 1972; served from January 3, 1947, until January 3, 1973, when he was presumed dead pursuant to House Resolution 1, Ninety-third Congress.
Bibliography
Balias, Scott E. ‘’The Courage of His Convictions: Hale Boggs and Civil Rights.” Ph.D. diss., Tulane University, 1993; Kirn, Dorothy Nelson. “Hale Boggs: A Southern Spokesman for the Democratic Party.” Ph.D. diss., Louisiana State University, 1980.
Balias, Scott E. “The Courage of His Convictions: Hale Boggs and Civil Rights.” Ph.D. diss., Tulane University, 1993.
Boggs, Hale. “Executive Impoundment of Congressionally Appropriated Funds.” University of Florida Law Review
24 (Winter 1972): 221-9.
Boulard, Garry. The Big Lie: Hale Boggs, Lucille May Grace, and Leander Perez in 1951
. Gretna, La.: Pelican Pub. Co., 2001.
Eggler, Bruce. Life and Career of Hale Boggs.
New Orleans: States-Item, 1973.
Engstrom, Richard L. “The Hale Boggs Gerrymander: Congressional Redistricting, 1969.” Louisiana History
21 (Winter 1980): 59-66.
Gibson, Dirk C. “Hale Boggs on J. Edgar Hoover: Rhetorical Choice and Political Denunciation.” Southern Speech Communication Journal
47 (Fall 1981): 54-66.
Kirn, Dorothy Nelson. “Hale Boggs: A Southern Spokesman for the Democratic Party.” Ph.D. diss., Louisiana State University, 1980.
Solomon, Burt. The Washington Century: Three Families and the Shaping of the Nation’s Capital
. New York: William Morrow, 2004.
United States. 93d Congress, 1st session, 1973. Memorial services held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States, together with tributes presented in eulogy [of] Hale Boggs, late a Representative from Louisiana
. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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