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A Common Man; Volume 11, Issue 9 Of On Cover: Once A Week Library
Lewis Vital Bogy
P. F. Collier, 1893
Speech of Col. Lewis V. Bogy, the Democratic nominee for Congress, in the First district
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Lewis Vital Bogy was an American lawyer and politician. He was a member of the board of aldermen of St. Louis in 1838.
Background
Lewis Bogy was born on April 9, 1813, at Sainte Genevieve, Missouri, United States, the son of Joseph Bogy, a native of Kaskaskia, Illinois, and a member of an early French pioneer family. Joseph Bogy was one of the secretaries of Gov. Morales during the Spanish occupation of the Louisiana Territory, and after the purchase, he removed to Sainte Genevieve, Missouri, where he became a leading figure in the economic and political life of southeastern Missouri. Here he married Marie Beauvais, and several years later his son, Lewis Vital, was born.
Education
Because of limited facilities and ill health, the early education of Lewis was seriously hampered. After much difficulty, he commenced the study of law and was graduated in 1835 from Transylvania University - his studies being interrupted by service in the Black Hawk War.
Career
Lewis removed to St. Louis in 1836 and within a decade had built up an extensive and lucrative practise. His attention and energy were largely occupied with the development of railroads and of iron mines. He suffered heavy financial losses in both ventures. From the first, he participated in Democratic politics, being elected in 1840 a member of the legislature from St. Louis. Returning in 1849 to Sainte Genevieve, he again became candidate for the legislature, representing the anti-Benton faction, but was defeated by a combination of Whigs and Benton Democrats. Two years later, he opposed Benton for Congress in a bitter and protracted contest but was unsuccessful. Dogged perseverance, a marked characteristic of Bogy, served him well during these campaigns, and he was elected in 1854 to the legislature. Here he became a leader of the anti-Benton forces and a supporter of D. R. Atchison for senator.
Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, Bogy espoused the Southern cause, although he had no direct part in the spectacular events in Missouri during the spring and summer of 1861, which resulted in the military defeat and political elimination of the disloyalists. During the war he kept very quiet, although it was well known that his sympathies were with the South. He did not subscribe to the oath of loyalty required of attorneys and abandoned his legal practise. In 1862, he became the Democratic, or "snowflake, " candidate for Congress but was defeated by Francis Preston Blair, Jr. , an ardent supporter of the Lincoln administration. The election district was under martial law and was administered by provost marshals. At the close of the war, he became a determined and relentless opponent of the Missouri Radicals and was a leader in the reconstruction of the Democratic party. He advocated the Liberal Republican movement in 1870 as a temporary expedient for the benefit of the Democratic party.
In 1872 the Democrats gained complete control of the state and Bogy became a candidate for senator, as the successor to Blair. His chief support came from those pro-slavery Democrats who had remained at home during the war. He received the nomination after a spirited contest in the party caucus and was elected. Grave charges of bribery and of other irregularities were made subsequent to the election, but after a somewhat perfunctory investigation, Bogy was fully exonerated. In his views both on the financial situation and on the election of 1876, he was supported by his constituents in Missouri. Neither an interesting speaker nor an effective debater, he stood in suggestive contrast to his colleague, Carl Schurz, with whom he was in complete disagreement on most political questions. Following a prolonged illness, he died during the fifth year of his term.
Achievements
Lewis Bogy achieved success serving as Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1867 to 1868, president of the city council of St. Louis in 1872, and president of St. Louis Iron Mountain Railway.
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Politics
Lewis Bogy was a member of the Democratic party. He was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives (1840–1841; 1854–1855); and the United States Senate from Missouri from 1873 to 1877. He entered the Senate when the grave conditions in financial affairs and in the South were the foremost issues. His views of public questions were essentially Western and he strongly advocated the inflation bill of 1874. He was a severe critic of the policy of the Grant administration in Louisiana during the troubles of 1874-1875. In the deliberations of the Senate concerning the disputed election of 1876, he was one of the chief critics of the Louisiana Returning Board and of Packard.
Connections
Bogy was married to Pelagie, daughter of Bernard Pratte, a member of one of the pioneer families of St. Louis.
