Born in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thomas Hale Boggs
and Corrine (Claiborne) Boggs
Wife of
[private husband (1940s - unknown)]
Mother of
[private son (1960s - unknown)] and Rebecca Roberts
Died
at age 75
in Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Biography
Cokie (Boggs) Roberts is Notable.
Cokie (Boggs) Roberts lived in Louisiana.
Journalist Mary Martha Corrine "Cokie" Boggs- Roberts was born in 1943 in the city of New Orleans to Congressman Hale Boggs and Ambassador Lindy Claiborne.[1]
She recieved her nickname of "Cokie" as her brother, Thomas, could not pronounce her name when he was a child. Cokie attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart, an all-girls school in New Orleans before graduating from the Stone Ridge School in 1960 and Wellesley College in 1964. At Wellesley she obtained a degree in political science.
By 1992, she served as a senior news analyst and commentator for National Public Radio and was their congressional correspondent for more than a decade. Along with working with NPR news, she was a correspondent on various news programs for ABC News such as World News Tonight and cohosted "This Week" with journalist Sam Donaldson.
For her work, she won the prestigious Edward R Morrow award, the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award and an Emmy in 1991 for her work on a profile for Ross Perot.
Cokie married fellow journalist Steven Roberts in May 1966 [2] and had two children. One of their children became a journalist in her own right.
She died on September 17th, 2019 after the breast cancer she successfully battled in 2002 returned.[3]
Sources
- ↑ American Ancestry Magazine (NEHGS, Boston, Spring 2020) Vol. 21, No. 1, Page 62: Obituary.
- ↑ "U.S., Newspapers.com™ Marriage Index, 1800s-current" Asbury Park Press; Publication Date: 11/ Sep/ 1966; Publication Place: Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/143687584/?article=6f9e9fea-5c22-412f-8c42-7f854cf21c81&focus=0.65454805,0.7374027,0.8635345,0.9168505&xid=3398. Ancestry Record 62116 #46344546 (accessed 14 April 2023). Corinne Claiborne Boggs (23) marriage to Steven V. Roberts in May 1966 in Bethesda , MD ..
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Cokie Roberts," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cokie_Roberts&oldid=916199064 (accessed September 17, 2019).
- https://biowikis.com/cokie-roberts/
- Wikidata: Item Q4395105, en:Wikipedia
- We Are Our Mothers' Daughters: Revised and Expanded Edition. 1998
- Cokie Roberts; Steven V. Roberts (7 April 2009). From This Day Forward
- Cokie Roberts; Steven V. Roberts (8 March 2011). Our Haggadah: Uniting Traditions for Interfaith Families
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NPR published this which includes information about her family members:
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/17/761050916/cokie-roberts-pioneering-female-journalist-who-helped-shape-npr-dies-at-75