Henry Warren Ogden

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Henry Warren Ogden (October 21, 1842 – July 23, 1905) was a member of the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 4th congressional district.

Henry Warren Ogden
U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 4th congressional district
In office
May 12, 1894 – March 3, 1899
Preceded byNewton C. Blanchard
Succeeded byPhanor Breazeale
Louisiana State Representative from Bossier Parish
In office
1880–1894
Preceded byJohn C. Vance
Succeeded byRobert Houston Curry
Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives
In office
1884–1888
Preceded byRobert N. Ogden, Jr.
Succeeded bySamuel P. Henry
Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
In office
1879-1894
Personal details
Born(1842-10-21)October 21, 1842
Abingdon
Washington County
Virginia, USA
DiedJuly 23, 1905(1905-07-23) (aged 62)
Benton, Bossier Parish
Louisiana
Political partyDemocratic
OccupationPlanter
Military service
Allegiance Confederate States of America
Branch/service Confederate States Army
Rank Lieutenant
Unit 16th Missouri Infantry
Battles/warsAmerican Civil War

Biography

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He was born in Abingdon in Washington County in far southwestern Virginia. In 1851, he moved with his parents to Warrensburg in Johnson County in west central Missouri, where he attended common schools.

During the American Civil War, he joined the Confederate States of America Army, despite living in a state that had remained within the Union. He rose to the rank of lieutenant. Ogden was a first lieutenant of Company D, Sixteenth Regiment, Missouri Infantry, and afterward on the staff of Brigadier General Lewis, Second Brigade, Parsons' division, Missouri Infantry. He was captured and held for one year as a prisoner of war. On June 8, 1865, he was paroled at Shreveport in Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana. There he remained and became a wealthy planter in adjacent Bossier Parish.

In 1879, Ogden was a member of the Louisiana constitutional convention and was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives from Bossier Parish. He was the Speaker from 1884 to 1888. In 1894, he won a special election as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives. The vacancy was created by the resignation of Newton C. Blanchard. Ogden was reelected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses, having served from May 12, 1894, to March 3, 1899. He left Congress in 1899 to return to his farm and died six years later in Benton, the Bossier Parish seat of government.

References

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  • United States Congress. "Henry Warren Ogden (id: O000044)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 4th congressional district
Henry Warren Ogden

1894–1899
Succeeded by
Preceded by
John C. Vance
Louisiana State Representative for Bossier Parish
Henry Warren Ogden

1880–1894
Succeeded by
Preceded by Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives
Henry Warren Ogden

1884–1888
Succeeded by
Samuel P. Henry of Cameron Parish