David A. Boody

David A. Boody

David Augustus Boody (born August 13, 1837 in Jackson , Maine , † January 20, 1930 in Brooklyn , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives in 1891 .

Career

David Boody was born in Jackson approximately nine years before the outbreak of the Mexican-American War . He attended community schools and Phillips Academy in Andover ( Massachusetts ). Boody studied law . He was admitted to the bar in Belfast in 1860 and then began practicing in Camden . Civil war broke out the following year . In 1862 he moved to Brooklyn, where he did banking and brokerage.

Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Congress in 1882 . Then he took part in the Democratic National Conventions as a delegate in 1884 and 1892 . Between 1886 and 1922 he was President of the Berkeley Institute in Brooklyn. In the congressional elections of 1890 Boody was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of New York , where he succeeded Felix Campbell on March 4, 1891 . He resigned from his seat in Congress on October 13, 1891 .

Then he was in the years 1892 and 1893 mayor of the then still independent city of Brooklyn and better known as "The Grand Old Man of Wall Street". Boody then went back to banking and brokerage. In 1897 he became President of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Public Library - a position he held in Brooklyn until his death on January 20, 1930. He was also a member of the New York Stock Exchange until his retirement in 1926 . His body was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery .

Web links

• David A. Boody in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• David A. Boody in the database of Find a Grave (English)