Henry W. Ogden

Henry Warren Ogden (October 21, 1842 - July 23, 1905) was a United States Representative from Louisiana. He born in Abingdon, Virginia and moved with his parents to Warrensburg, Missouri in 1851. He attended the common schools.

During the American Civil War, he was a member of the Confederate Army and served throughout the conflict. 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 paroled at Shreveport, Louisiana on June 8, 1865. He remained in Louisiana and engaged in agricultural pursuits.

Ogden was a member of the Louisiana constitutional convention in 1879. He served in the Louisiana House of Representatives 1880-1888 and was speaker of the house from 1884 to 1888. He was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Newton C. Blanchard. He was reelected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses and served from May 12, 1894, to March 3, 1899. He resumed agricultural pursuits before he died in Benton, Louisiana on July 23, 1905. Ogden was buried in Cottage Grove Cemetery.

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