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Affiliation | Democratic |
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Name | Lewis V. Bogy |
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April 09, 1813
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Died | September 20, 1877
(64 years)
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Info | Lewis Vital Bogy
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.
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