David A. Boody

David Augustus Boody
Born	August 13, 1837(1837-08-13)
Died	January 20, 1930(1930-01-20) (aged 92)
Citizenship	American
Title	Congressman, 1891 Mayor of Brooklyn, 1892-93
Political party	Democratic Party

David Augustus Boody (August 13, 1837 – January 20, 1930) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Jackson, Maine, he attended the common schools and Phillips Academy (in Andover, Massachusetts). He studied law with Charles M. Brown in Bangor, Maine,^[1] was admitted to the bar in 1860 at Belfast, Maine, and commenced practice in Camden, Maine. He moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1862 and engaged in the banking and brokerage business. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Forty-eighth Congress in 1882, and was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1884 and 1892. He was president of Berkeley Institute in Brooklyn from 1886 to 1922, and was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress and held office from March 4, 1891 until his resignation on October 13, 1891.

Boody was Mayor of the City of Brooklyn in 1892 and 1893, and resumed his former banking and brokerage business. He served as president of the board of trustees of the Brooklyn Public Library from 1897 until his death, and was a member of the New York Stock Exchange but retired in 1926. He resided in Brooklyn until his death there in 1930; interment was in Green-Wood Cemetery. David A. Boody Junior High School is named after him in Brooklyn, NY.

References

1. ^ Brooklyn Daily Eagle: p. 77. Jan. 2, 1898. 

• David A. Boody at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by [[]]	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York ? – ?	Succeeded by [[]]

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Name	Boody, David
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Date of birth	August 13, 1837
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Date of death	January 20, 1930
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