Lilburn Boggs

Lilburn Boggs
Official governor portrait in Missouri State Capitol
6th Governor of Missouri
In office September 30, 1836 – November 16, 1840
Lieutenant	Franklin Cannon
Preceded by	Daniel Dunklin
Succeeded by	Thomas Reynolds
4th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri
In office November 19, 1832 – September 30, 1836
Governor	Daniel Dunklin
Preceded by	Daniel Dunklin
Succeeded by	Vacant
Member of the Missouri Senate
In office 1825–1832 1842–1846
Member of the California State Assembly
Personal details
Born	Lilburn Williams Boggs (1796-12-14)December 14, 1796 Lexington, Kentucky
Died	March 14, 1860(1860-03-14) (aged 63) Rancho Napa, Napa County, California
Political party	Democratic

Lilburn Williams Boggs (December 14, 1796 – March 14, 1860) was the sixth Governor of Missouri from 1836 to 1840. He is now most widely remembered for his interactions with Joseph Smith and Porter Rockwell, and Missouri Executive Order 44, known by Mormons as the "Extermination Order", issued in response to the ongoing conflict between members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and other settlers of Missouri. Boggs was also a key player in the Honey War of 1837.

Lilburn W. Boggs was born in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky on December 14, 1796, to John McKinley Boggs and Martha Oliver. Boggs served in the War of 1812. He moved in 1816 from Lexington, Kentucky to Missouri, which was then part of the Louisiana Territory. In Greenup County, Kentucky, in 1817, Boggs married his first wife Julia Ann Bent (1801–1820), a sister of the Bent brothers of Bent's Fort fame, and daughter of Silas Bent, then a judge in the Missouri Supreme Court. She died on September 21, 1820 in St Louis, Missouri. They had two children, Angus and Henry.

In 1823, Boggs married Panthea Grant Boone (1801–1880), a granddaughter of Daniel Boone, in Callaway County, Missouri. They spent most of the following twenty-three years in Jackson County, Missouri, where all but two of their many children were born.