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Davi 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, 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.