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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriLewis Vital BOGY
(1813-1877)
Senate Years of Service:
1873-1877Party: DemocratBOGY, Lewis Vital, a
Senator from Missouri; born in Ste. Genevieve, Mo., April 9, 1813;
attended the public schools; employed as clerk in a mercantile
establishment; studied law in Illinois; graduated from Transylvania
University, Lexington, Ky., in 1835 and commenced practice in St.
Louis; served in the Black Hawk War; member of the board of
aldermen of St. Louis in 1838; member, State house of
representatives 1840-1841, 1854-1855; Commissioner of Indian
Affairs in 1867 and 1868; president of the city council of St.
Louis in 1872; one of the founders of the St. Louis Iron Mountain
Railway, acting as president for two years; elected as a Democrat
to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1873, until
his death in St. Louis, Mo., September 20, 1877; interment in
Calvary Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Bogy, Lewis Vital. A Common Man. New York:
P.F. Collier, 1893; Bogy, Lewis Vital. In Office: A Story of
Washington Life and Society. Chicago: F.J. Schulte Co., 1891;
U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses for Lewis Bogy. 45th
Cong., 2nd sess., 1877-1878. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing
Office, 1878.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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