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'''Virginia Morse Martinez''', usually known as '''Ginny Martinez''' (1922 - June 25, 1992), was a long-term [[Republican Party]] official who is credited with having landed her party's 1988 [[Republican National Convention|1988]] national convention in her adopted home city of [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]].<ref name = obit>http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/obits/1/m-07.txt</ref> Delegates nominated the [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]]-[[J. Danforth Quayle|Quayle]] ticket. Martinez had been a notable supporter of Bush.<ref>{{cite news |title=New Old Bush Supporters |author= |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/73568691.html?dids=73568691:73568691&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+14%2C+1988&author=Maralee+Schwartz%3B+Charles+R.+Babcock%3B+Thomas+B.+Edsall&pub=The+Washington+Post+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=New+Old+Bush+Supporters&pqatl=google |newspaper=Washington Times |date=February 14, 1988 |accessdate=}}</ref>​

'''Virginia Morse Martinez''', usually known as '''Ginny Martinez''' (1922 - June 25, 1992), was a long-term [[Republican Party]] official who is credited with having landed her party's 1988 [[Republican National Convention|1988]] national convention in her adopted home city of [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]].<ref name = obit>http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/obits/1/m-07.txt</ref> Delegates nominated the [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]]-[[J. Danforth Quayle|Quayle]] ticket. Martinez had been a notable supporter of Bush.<ref>{{cite news |title=New Old Bush Supporters |author= |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/73568691.html?dids=73568691:73568691&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+14%2C+1988&author=Maralee+Schwartz%3B+Charles+R.+Babcock%3B+Thomas+B.+Edsall&pub=The+Washington+Post+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=New+Old+Bush+Supporters&pqatl=google |newspaper=Washington Times |date=February 14, 1988 |accessdate=}}</ref>​

 

Martinez was the [[Republican Party|Louisiana Republican National Committeewoman]] from 1977 until her death in 1992.<ref name=obit/> As a member of the RNC Executive Committee in [[Washington, D.C.]], she fought for the Louisiana Superdome (since the Mercedes-Benz Superdome) as the 1988 convention site. Martinez was a member of both the convention Host Committee, which produced the 80-page program, and the Calendar Committee.<ref name=obit/> The delegates were greeted by then [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[Governor]] [[Buddy Roemer]], who three years later in the spring of 1991 switched to Republican affiliation, only to lose his reelection race.​

Martinez was the [[Republican Party|Louisiana Republican National Committeewoman]] from 1977 until her death in 1992.<ref name=obit/> As a member of the RNC Executive Committee in [[Washington, D.C.]], she fought for the Louisiana Superdome (since the Mercedes-Benz Superdome) as the 1988 convention site. Martinez was a member of both the convention Host Committee, which produced the 80-page program, and the Calendar Committee.<ref name=obit/> The delegates were greeted by then [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[Governor]] [[Buddy Roemer]], who three years later in the spring of 1991 switched to Republican affiliation, only to lose his reelection race.​

Martinez was born in Milford in Worcester County in southern [[Massachusetts]]. She graduated from St. Mary's Academy there and then Hunter College]in [[New York City]]. During [[World War II]], she was a [[lieutenant]] in the [[United States Navy]] WAVES. In 1946, after her marriage to Reginald V. Martinez, Jr. (1922–2006),<ref name=ssdi>[http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi Social Security Death Index Interactive Search<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> she relocated to New Orleans, where her family resided until 1977, when the Martinezes moved to the nearby [[suburb]] of Kenner in Jefferson Parish.<ref name=obit/>​

Martinez was born in Milford in Worcester County in southern [[Massachusetts]]. She graduated from St. Mary's Academy there and then Hunter College]in [[New York City]]. During [[World War II]], she was a [[lieutenant]] in the [[United States Navy]] WAVES. In 1946, after her marriage to Reginald V. Martinez, Jr. (1922–2006),<ref name=ssdi>[http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi Social Security Death Index Interactive Search<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> she relocated to New Orleans, where her family resided until 1977, when the Martinezes moved to the nearby [[suburb]] of Kenner in Jefferson Parish.<ref name=obit/>​

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Martinez became active in the Republican Party during the 1971-1972 gubernatorial election, when she, along with state party chairman [[Charles deGravelles]] of [[Lafayette]] and his wife, [[Virginia deGravelles]], organized on behalf of Republican nominee [[David C. Treen]], then of Metairie in Jefferson Parish. Treen, only the second Republican since [[Reconstruction]] to make a serious bid for governor, was defeated in that election cycle but won the governorship eight years later in 1979. She later worked to elect William Henson Moore, of [[Baton Rouge]] and [[Bob Livingston]] of suburban New Orleans to the [[United States House of Representatives]]. Martinez was the founding president of the Lakefront Republican Women's Club and held membership in similar organizations in New Orleans and Kenner. She was a member of the Capitol Hill Club in Washington and the City Club in New Orleans. In addition, she was a former vice president of the Louisiana Federation of Republican Women, a political support group founded in 1953. She was the treasurer of the [[Republican National Convention]]s which met in 1980 in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], and in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]] in 1984.<ref name=obit/>​

Martinez became active in the Republican Party during the 1971-1972 gubernatorial election, when she, along with state party chairman [[Charles and Virginia deGravelles| Charles deGravelles]] of [[Lafayette]] and his wife, [[Charles and Virginia deGravelles|Virginia deGravelles]], organized on behalf of Republican nominee [[David C. Treen]], then of Metairie in Jefferson Parish. Treen, only the second Republican since [[Reconstruction]] to make a serious bid for governor, was defeated in that election cycle but won the governorship eight years later in 1979. She later worked to elect William Henson Moore, of [[Baton Rouge]] and [[Bob Livingston]] of suburban New Orleans to the [[United States House of Representatives]]. Martinez was the founding president of the Lakefront Republican Women's Club and held membership in similar organizations in New Orleans and Kenner. She was a member of the Capitol Hill Club in Washington and the City Club in New Orleans. In addition, she was a former vice president of the Louisiana Federation of Republican Women, a political support group founded in 1953. She was the treasurer of the [[Republican National Convention]]s which met in 1980 in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], and in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]] in 1984.<ref name=obit/>​

 

From 1984 until her death of cancer at the age of sixty-nine in Southern Baptist Hospital of New Orleans, Martinez served as a director of [[St. Jude's Hospital]] in [[Memphis]], [[Tennessee]].  She is interred at the Lake Lawn [[Mausoleum]] in New Orleans.<ref name=obit/>​

From 1984 until her death of cancer at the age of sixty-nine in Southern Baptist Hospital of New Orleans, Martinez served as a director of [[St. Jude's Hospital]] in [[Memphis]], [[Tennessee]].  She is interred at the Lake Lawn [[Mausoleum]] in New Orleans.<ref name=obit/>​

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