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==