Woodson R. Oglesby

Woodson Ratcliffe Oglesby (* February 9, 1867 in Shelbyville, Kentucky, † April 30, 1955 in Quincy, Florida) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1913 and 1917 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Congressman Richard J. Oglesby was his cousin.

Career

Woodson Ratcliffe Oglesby was born about two years after the end of the civil war in Shelby County. He attended public schools, the Kentucky Wesleyan College (then in Millersburg ) and the Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington. Oglesby studied law. After receiving his license to practice law in 1890, he began practicing in New York City. During the Spanish- American War he served as a private in Company C of the 71st Regiment of the New York National Guard. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1906 he sat in the New York State Assembly. He took 1912 as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in part.

In the congressional elections of 1912 for the 63rd Congress Oglesby was in the 24th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George Winthrop Fairchild on March 4, 1913. He was re-elected once. In 1916, he ran unsuccessfully for the 65th Congress, and then retired after March 3, 1917 the Congress of.

After his conference time he went to New York City back to his work as a lawyer after which he held until his retirement in 1928. He lived in Yonkers and Quincy. On April 30, 1955, he died in Quincy and was then buried in the Eastern Cemetery in Quitman (Georgia ).