Lilburn Williams Boggs (14 December 1796 – 14 March 1860) was Lieutenant Governor of Missouri from 19 November 1832 to 30 September 1836 (interrupting Daniel Dunklin's terms) and from 30 September 1836 to 16 November 1840 (succeeding Dunklin and preceding Thomas Reynolds).
Biography[]
Lilburn Williams Boggs was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1796, and he served in the militia during the War of 1812 before moving to Columbia, Missouri in 1816. He served in the State Senate from 1825 to 1832, as Lieutenant Governor from 1832 to 1836, as Governor from 1836 to 1840, and as a State Senator from 1842 to 1846. He was most infamous for his 1838 order to exterminate the Mormons amid the 1838 Mormon War, and it was not until 25 June 1976 that the order was formally rescinded. On 6 May 1842, he was almost assassinated in Independence when Joseph Smith's close associate Porter Rockwell fired buckshot at his head through his study's window, but he gradually recovered from his wounds and migrated to California in 1846. He settled in Sonoma and served as its alcalde from 1847 to 1849, and he served in the State Assembly from 1852 to 1855. He retired to Rancho Napa in Napa County in 1855, and he died in 1860.