Lewis V. Bogy

Lewis Vital Bogy
United States Senator from Missouri
In office March 4, 1873 – September 20, 1877
Preceded by	Francis P. Blair Jr.
Succeeded by	David H. Armstrong
14th Commissioner of Indian Affairs
In office 1866–1867
President	Andrew Johnson
Preceded by	Dennis N. Cooley
Succeeded by	Nathaniel Green Taylor
President of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen
In office 1872
Member of the Missouri House of Representatives
In office 1840–1841 1854–1855
St. Louis Alderman
In office 1838
Personal details
Born	(1813-04-09)April 9, 1813 Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Died	September 20, 1877(1877-09-20) (aged 64) St. Louis, Missouri
Political party	Democratic
Signature

Lewis Vital Bogy (April 9, 1813 – September 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.

See also

• List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1790–1899)

Works

• Bogy, Lewis Vital (1891). In Office; a Story of Washington Life and Society. The Ariel Library. Extra no., B. Chicago: F. J. Schulte & Company.

Further reading

• "Lewis Vital Bogy (1818–1877)". Missouri Encyclopedia. Retrieved September 7, 2025.
• Memorial addresses on the life and character of Lewis V. Bogy, (a Senator from Missouri,) delivered in the Senate, January 16, 1878, and in the House of Representatives, January 23, 1878. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1878.
• "Sen. Lewis Bogy exonerated, March 25, 1873". Politico. March 25, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2025.

External links

• Photograph of U.S. Senator Lewis V. Bogy, while Indian Commissioner at Washington 1867-8, with Sauk and Fox Chiefs
• "Lewis Vital Bogy Family Papers, 1795-1929; 1960-1961". Missouri Historical Society. Retrieved September 7, 2025.

Notes

• United States Congress. "Lewis V. Bogy (id: B000595)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

External links

• 
   Media related to Lewis V. Bogy at Wikimedia Commons