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|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]}}
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'''Elsie Jean McGivney Boese''' (pronounced BOW-SE; January 19, 1925 – April 7, 2004), known as '''Jean Boese''' or as '''Jeannie Boese''', was the poet laureate of [[Louisiana]] from 1980 to 1988 and from 1996 until her death.<ref name=poetlaureates/> She was also the [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Republican National Committee|national committeewoman]] from Louisiana and the first woman to serve on the [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] Civil Service Commission, with tenure from 1975 to 1979<ref name=biographies>{{cite web|url=https://www.biographies.net/people/en/jean_boese|title=Jean Boese|publisher=Biographies.net|accessdate=April 5, 2019}}</ref>
'''Elsie Jean McGivney Boese''' (pronounced BOW-SE; January 19, 1925 – April 7, 2004), known as '''Jean Boese''' or as '''Jeannie Boese''', was the poet laureate of [[Louisiana]] from 1980 to 1988 and from 1996 until her death.<ref name=poetlaureates/> She was also the [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Republican National Committee|national committeewoman]] from Louisiana and the first woman to serve on the [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] Civil Service Commission, with tenure from 1975 to 1979.<ref name=biographies>{{cite web|url=https://www.biographies.net/people/en/jean_boese|title=Jean Boese|publisher=Biographies.net|accessdate=April 5, 2019}}</ref>
==Background==
==Background==
:Louisiana has my love, because it's part of me.
:Louisiana has my love, because it's part of me.
==Death at 79==
==Death at 79==
Herman Boese preceded his wife in death by forty-one days. He had been her caregiver in her last years. The couple was [[Roman Catholic]]. He shared his wife's political leanings. In 1966, he was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the Rapides Parish School Board, along with future U.S. District Judge Nauman Steele Scott (1916-2001) and future Republican national committeeman and Louisiana state GOP chairman John Hamilton Cade, Jr. (1928-1989). At the time there were six at-large seats on the body, but by the 1970s the board had converted to single-member districts.
Herman Boese preceded his wife in death by forty-one days. He had been her caregiver in her last years. The couple was [[Roman Catholic]]. He shared his wife's political leanings. In 1966, he was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the Rapides Parish School Board, along with future U.S. District Judge Nauman Steele Scott (1916-2001) and future Republican national committeeman and Louisiana state GOP chairman John Hamilton Cade, Jr. (1928-1989). At the time there were six at-large seats on the body, but by the 1970s the board had converted to single-member districts.