David Hartley Armstrong (October 21, 1812March 18, 1893) was a

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from

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Born in

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, he attended

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and taught school in

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from 1833 to 1837. He moved to

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in 1837, and then to

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, where he taught at McKendree College (now

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). He returned to Missouri and was principal of the public school at Benton from 1838 to 1847,

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of St. Louis from 1847 to 1850,

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of St. Louis from 1854 to 1858 and a member of the board of

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s 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

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to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis V. Bogy, 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

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. 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!".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Armstrong, David 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 19th-century United States senators

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