Alexander Ogle

Who was Alexander Ogle?

Alexander Ogle was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Alexander Ogle was born in Frederick, Maryland. He moved to Somerset, Pennsylvania, in 1795. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1803, 1804, 1807, 1808, and 1811. He served as major general in the State militia, and as prothonotary, recorder of deeds, and clerk of courts from 1812 to 1817.

Ogle was elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1818. He was again a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1819 to 1823, and served in the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1827 and 1828. He died in Somerset in 1832. Interment in Union Cemetery.

Alexander Ogle is also related to the photographer O. Winston Link.