Charles F. Ogden

Who was Charles F. Ogden?

Charles Franklin Ogden was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.

Born in Charlestown, Indiana, Ogden graduated from Jeffersonville High School, Jeffersonville, Indiana. He graduated from the University of Louisville Law School, Louisville, Kentucky, 1896. He was a lawyer in private practice. He served as member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1898 to 1899. Company H, Eighth Regiment, United States Volunteer Infantry, Spanish-American War. He was an unsuccessful candidate for county attorney in 1901. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Kentucky state senator in 1902.

Ogden was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the succeeding Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination to the Sixty-eighth Congress in 1922. He died on April 10, 1933, in Louisville, Kentucky. He was interred in Resthaven Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky.