Career
Boal served as the United States Ambassador to Nicaragua from 1941 to 1942 and the United States Ambassador to Bolivia from May 1942 to February 5, 1944. In 1925 his father was a Lieutenant Colonel in the 28th Infantry Division, a unit in the Army National Guard and the oldest Division-sized unit in the United States armed forces. Boal"s French wife, Jeanne de Menthon, was a decedent of Bernard of Menthon, an 11th-century saint.
Their children included Mimi Lee, who served as the First Lady of Maryland from 1977 to 1979.
He died at 3 p.m. of a "cerebral vascular accident" on May 24, 1966 at the American hospital on 63 Victor Hugo Boulevard, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
