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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>​

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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]] 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.​

 

==Life and career==​

==Life and career==

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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/>​