Ogden, Henry Warren

Name: Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 - Ogden, Henry Warren
Author: U.S. Congress

Ogden, Henry Warren, a Representative from Louisiana; born in Abingdon, Washington County, Va., October 21, 1842; moved with his parents to Warrensburg, Mo., in 1851; attended the common schools; entered the Confederate Army and served throughout the Civil War; first lieutenant of Company D, Sixteenth Regiment, Missouri Infantry, and afterward on the staff of Brigadier General Lewis, Second Brigade, Parsons’ division, Missouri Infantry; paroled at Shreveport on June 8, 1865; remained in Louisiana and engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State constitutional convention in 1879; served in the State house of representatives 1880-1888 and was speaker ofthe house from 1884 to 1888; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Newton C. Blanchard; reelected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses and served from May 12, 1894, to March 3, 1899; resumed agricultural pursuits; died in Benton, Bossier Parish, La., on July 23, 1905; interment in Cottage Grove Cemetery.

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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Ogden, Henry Warren," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1629 1630. Original Sources, accessed March 26, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=541XZX1NLU1LVRU.

MLA: U.S. Congress. "Ogden, Henry Warren." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1629, page 1630. Original Sources. 26 Mar. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=541XZX1NLU1LVRU.

Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Ogden, Henry Warren' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1629, pp.1630. Original Sources, retrieved 26 March 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=541XZX1NLU1LVRU.