Virginia Martinez (Louisiana Politician)

Virginia Martinez (Louisiana Politician)

Virginia Morse Martinez, usually known as Ginny Martinez (born c. 1922 - June 25, 1992), was a long-term Louisiana Republican Party official who is credited with having landed her party's 1988 national convention in her adopted home city of New Orleans. Delegates nominated the Bush-Quayle ticket. Martinez had been a notable supporter of Bush.

Martinez was the Louisiana Republican National Committeewoman from 1977 until her death. 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. The delegates were greeted by then Democratic Governor Charles E. "Buddy" Roemer, III, who three years later in the spring of 1991 switched to Republican affiliation.