David Augustus Boody
Democrat Representative of New York's 2nd district
Representative
New York, district 2
December 7, 1891 - October 13, 1891
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Congresses Served
1
House Terms
August 13, 1837 (92 years old)
Birthday
January 20, 1930
Death
- Served briefly as a United States Representative in 1891
- Born in a log cabin in Jackson, Maine
- Attended common schools and Phillips Academy
- Studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1860
- Moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1862 and engaged in banking and brokerage
- Unsuccessful candidate for the Forty-eighth Congress in 1882
- Delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1884 and 1892
- President of Berkeley Institute in Brooklyn from 1886 to 1922
- Served as Mayor of Brooklyn in 1892 and 1893
- Resumed banking and brokerage business after Congress
- President of the Louisiana and Northwestern Railway and Vice-President of the Sprague National Bank
- President of the board of trustees of the Brooklyn Public Library from 1897 until his death
- Member of the New York Stock Exchange, retired in 1926
- Died in Brooklyn, New York, and is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery
- A junior high school and a fireboat in Brooklyn are named after him