Charles F. Ogden

Charles Franklin Ogden (* February 4, 1873 in Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana, † April 10, 1933 in Louisville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1923 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Ogden attended after elementary school, the Jefferson High School in Indiana. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Louisville and his 1896 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to practice in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1898 and 1899 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. During the Spanish- American War he served as a volunteer in the U.S. armed forces.

1901 Ogden competed unsuccessfully for the office of district attorney. The following year, failed his candidacy for the Senate from Kentucky. In the congressional elections of 1918 he was in the fifth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Swagar J. Sherley on March 4, 1919. After a re-election in 1920 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1923 two legislative sessions. During this time, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the Prohibition Act and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage.

In 1922, Charles Ogden gave up another candidacy. As a result, he retired from politics. He died on April 10, 1933 in Louisville, and was also buried there.

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