The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Congresswoman Lindy Boggs, a plantation-born Louisianan who used her soft-spoken grace to fight for civil rights during nearly 18 years in Congress after succeeding her late husband in the House of Representatives, died Saturday. She was 97.
Boggs, who later served three years as ambassador to the Vatican during the Clinton administration, died of natural causes at her home in Maryland, according to her daughter, ABC News...
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