Lewis Vital Bogy | |
Jr/Sr1: | United States Senator |
State1: | Missouri |
Term Start1: | March 4, 1873 |
Term End1: | September 20, 1877 |
Predecessor1: | Francis P. Blair Jr. |
Successor1: | David H. Armstrong |
Office2: | Commissioner of Indian Affairs |
Term Start2: | 1866 |
Term End2: | 1867 |
President2: | Andrew Johnson |
Predecessor2: | Dennis N. Cooley |
Successor2: | Nathaniel Green Taylor |
Office3: | President of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen |
Term3: | 1872 |
Office4: | Member of the Missouri House of Representatives |
Term4: | 1840–1841 1854–1855 |
Office5: | St. Louis Alderman |
Term5: | 1838 |
Birth Date: | 9 April 1813 |
Birth Place: | Ste. Genevieve, Missouri |
Death Place: | St. Louis, Missouri |
Party: | Democratic |
Signature: | Signature of Lewis Vital Bogy (1813–1877).png |
Lewis Vital Bogy (April 9, 1813September 20, 1877) was a United States senator from Missouri. Born in Ste. Geneviève, he attended the public schools, was employed as clerk in a mercantile establishment, studied law in Illinois, graduated from Transylvania University (Lexington, Kentucky in 1835 and commenced practice in St. Louis. He served in the Black Hawk War, was a member of the board of aldermen of St. Louis in 1838, and was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives in 1840–1841 and 1854–1855. He was commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1866 and 1867, and president of the city council of St. Louis in 1872. Bogy was one of the founders of the St. Louis Iron Mountain Railway, acting as president for two years.
Bogy was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1873, until his death in St. Louis in 1877; he was buried at Calvary Cemetery section 1.[1]