Religion: probably indeterminate
Name: Wilmer Boggs
Classification: supporting character based on a real person
First Appearance: The Doom Patrol (vol. 1) #121 (Sep.-Oct. 1968): "The Beginning of the End!"
Creators: Arnold Drake, Bruno Premiani
Number of Appearances: 1
Occupation: politician
Location: Washington, D.C., USA
Gender: male
Note: told Doom Patrol they were threat; evicted them from city
Wilmer Boggs, the Washington D.C. politician who evicted the Doom Patrol from the United States, is named after and partially based on real-life historical figure Lilburn Williams Boggs, the Missouri governor who drove Latter-day Saint ("Mormons") out of their settlements in Midwestern states.
Governor Boggs issued the infamous "Extermination Order," the only time in U.S. history that a law was passed allowing for the genocide of a group of the nation's own citizens. In Doom Patrol #121, the last issue of the first volume of Doom Patrol comics, the Doom Patrol team is in some ways likened to the early Latter-day Saint settlers of the 1800s, who similarly left their country rather than stay and defy the government.
Suggested links for further research about this character:
- http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_Patrol_Vol_1_121
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilburn_Boggs
- https://www.comics.org/issue/22142