Henry Warren Ogden (October 21, 1842 – July 23, 1905) was a member of the

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for

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Biography

He was born in Abingdon in Washington County in far southwestern

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. In 1851, he moved with his parents to Warrensburg in Johnson County in west central

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, where he attended common schools. During the

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, he joined the

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, despite living in a state that had remained within the

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. He rose to the rank of

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. Ogden was a first lieutenant of Company D, Sixteenth Regiment, Missouri Infantry, and afterward on the staff of Brigadier General Lewis, Second Brigade, Parsons' division, Missouri Infantry. He was captured and held for one year as a

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. On June 8, 1865, he was paroled at

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in northwestern

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. There he remained and became a wealthy planter in adjacent

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. In 1879, Ogden was a member of the Louisiana constitutional convention and was elected to the

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from Bossier Parish. He was the

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from 1884 to 1888. In 1894, he won a

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as a

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to the

. The vacancy was created by the resignation of Newton C. Blanchard. Ogden was reelected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses, having served from May 12, 1894, to March 3, 1899. He left Congress in 1899 to return to his farm and died six years later in Benton, the Bossier Parish

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References

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