David Hartley Armstrong (October 21, 1812March 18, 1893) was a
United States senator from
Missouri.
Biography
Born in
Nova Scotia,
British Canada, he attended
Maine Wesleyan Seminary
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and taught school in
New Bedford, Massachusetts
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from 1833 to 1837. He moved to
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the Greater St. Louis, ...
in 1837, and then to
Lebanon, Illinois
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, where he taught at McKendree College (now
McKendree University
McKendree University (McK) is a private university in Lebanon, Illinois. Founded in 1828 as the Lebanon Seminary, it is the oldest college or university in Illinois. McKendree enrolls approximately 2,300 undergraduates and nearly 700 graduate ...
). He returned to Missouri and was principal of the public school at
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Canada
*Benton, a local service district south of Woodstock, New Brunswick
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United Kingdom
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United States
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from 1838 to 1847,
comptroller
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of St. Louis from 1847 to 1850,
postmaster
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of St. Louis from 1854 to 1858 and a member of the board of
police commissioners from 1873 to 1876.
Armstrong served as a member of the board of
freeholders which framed the charter of St. Louis in 1876, and was appointed as a
Democrat
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Politics
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to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Lewis V. Bogy
Lewis Vital Bogy (April 9, 1813September 20, 1877) was a United States senator from Missouri. Born in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Ste. Geneviève, he attended the public schools, was employed as clerk in a mercantile establishment, studied law in ...
, serving from September 29, 1877, to January 26, 1879, when a successor was elected and qualified. Armstrong was not a candidate for reelection in 1879; and in 1893 died in St. Louis. Interment was in
Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Armstrong was Vice President of the St. Louis Board and helped command the July 27, 1877 cavalry attack on the strikers outside Schuler Hall, the headquarters of the Executive Committee coordinating the
St. Louis General strike. He reportedly yelled from a shady side of the street for his policemen to "Ride 'em down!".
See also
*
List of United States senators born outside the United States
References
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External links
External links
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1812 births
Emigrants from pre-Confederation Nova Scotia to the United States
1893 deaths
Democratic Party United States senators from Missouri
Missouri Democrats
McKendree University faculty
19th-century Missouri politicians
Politicians from St. Louis
Kents Hill School alumni