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Andrew Jackson Ogle (March 25, 1822 – October 14, 1852) was a Whig member of the
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from
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. Andrew J. Ogle (son of Alexander Ogle, Jr., grandson of Alexander Ogle, and nephew of Charles Ogle) was born in
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, in 1822. He attended Jefferson College in
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. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice in Somerset. He served as
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of
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, in 1845. Ogle was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
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. He was appointed United States Chargé d'Affaires to
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on January 22, 1852, but did not assume his duties at that post. He died in Somerset in 1852. Interment in Union Cemetery.


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