Thomas K. Boggan

Thomas Kendall Boggan was born on February 2, 1880, in Mooresville, Mississippi.[1] He was the son of Thomas Armstrong Boggan, a former member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, and Mittie Catherine (Mitchener) Boggan, a descendant of Daniel Boone.[1] Boggan was of Irish and English descent.[1] He attended the public schools of Mooresville and Fulton, Mississippi.[1] He attended Tupelo High School from 1898 to 1899, and the University of Mississippi from 1899 to 1903, graduating with a B. P. degree in 1903.[1][2] He then attended the University of Michigan Law School for three semesters and then did a senior course in the University of Mississippi School of Law, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1912.[1]

While studying law, Boggan was also working in the field of education.[1] He was the Superintendent of public schools in Collins, Mississippi, from 1903 to 1907, of Magnolia, Mississippi, from 1907 to 1908, and of Biloxi, Mississippi, from 1908 to 1911.[1] He was a member of the Mississippi State Textbook Commission from the 6th Congressional District from 1905 to 1910.[1] He began practicing law in November 1912 in Meridian, Mississippi.[1] Soon afterwards, he moved to Tupelo, Mississippi, and continued practicing law there.[1] In 1915, Boggan was elected to represent the 38th District in the Mississippi State Senate for the 1916-1920 term.[1] Boggan stopped practicing law in the 1920s, and continued teaching until 1947.[3]

Boggan was a member of the Methodist Church, and of the Freemasons, Woodmen of the World, and the Knights of Pythias.[1] He married Shirley Sue Neill in 1904.[1] Boggan died at his home in Jackson, Mississippi, on March 28, 1958, from a self-inflicted bullet wound, after being "in ill health and despondent for a month."[3]