Henry Warren Ogden

Henry Warren Ogden (October 21, 1842 - July 23, 1905) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana. He was born in Abingdon, Virginia on October 21, 1842. In 1851, he moved with his parents to Warrensburg, Missouri, where he attended the common schools.

During the American Civil War, he joined the Confederate Army, despite living in a state that had remained part of the Union, eventually rising to the rank of lieutenant. 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 prisoner of war. On June 8, 1865, he was paroled at Shreveport, Louisiana, and remained there. He then entered agriculture, eventually becoming a wealthy planter.

In 1879, Ogden was a member of the Louisiana constitutional convention and was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives, serving as the body's Speaker from 1884 to 1888. He left state politics in 1894 when he was elected as a Democrat to Congress after the resignation of Newton C. Blanchard. He was reelected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses and served from May 12, 1894, to March 3, 1899. He left Congress in 1899 to return to his farm, and died in Benton, Louisiana, on July 23, 1905.

References

• Henry Warren Ogden at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress