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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>Obituary of Virginia Morse Martinez, ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 27, 1992.</ref> Delegates nominated the [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]]-[[J. Danforth Quayle|Quayle]] ticket. Martinez had been a notable Bush supporter.<ref>{{cite web|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|publisher=''The Washington Times'' |date=February 14, 1988; no longer on-line.}}</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>Obituary of Virginia Morse Martinez, ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' June 27, 1992.</ref> Delegates nominated the [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]]-[[J. Danforth Quayle|Quayle]] ticket. Martinez had been a notable Bush supporter.<ref>{{cite web|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|publisher=''The Washington Times''|date=February 14, 1988; no longer on-line.}}</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.