David Augustus Boody (August 13, 1837 – January 20, 1930) was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician who served briefly as a United States representative from New York in 1891.

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.

Elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress, Boody served as United States Representative for the second district of New York and held office from March 4, 1891 until his resignation on October 13, 1891.

[2] He served as president of the board of trustees of the Brooklyn Public Library from 1897 until his death, and was a member of the New York Stock Exchange but retired in 1926.

Boody died in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, on January 20, 1930 (age 92 years, 160 days).