Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949

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Ogden, David A.

Ogden, David A., a Representative from New York; born in Morristown, Morris County, N.J., January 10, 1770; attended King’s College (now Columbia University), New York City; studied law; was admitted to the bar in November 1791 and began practice in Newark, N.J.; became counselor at law in New Jersey in 1796; moved to Hamilton (now Waddington), St. Lawrence County, N.Y., and continued the practice of law; associate judge of the court of common pleas of St. Lawrence County, N.Y., 1811-1815; member of the State assembly in 1814 and 1815; elected as a Federalist to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1819); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1818 to the Sixteenth Congress; first judge of the court of common pleas 1820-1824 and 1825-1829; one of the commissioners to settle the boundary between Canada and the United States; died in Montreal, Canada, June 9, 1829; interment in Brookside Cemetery, Waddington, St. Lawrence County, N.Y.

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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Ogden, David A.," 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 Original Sources, accessed September 30, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DA7MC4CW71D92ND.

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Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Ogden, David A.' 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. Original Sources, retrieved 30 September 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DA7MC4CW71D92ND.