Charles F. Ogden Explained

Charles Franklin Ogden
State2:Kentucky
Term Start2:March 4, 1919
Term End2:March 3, 1923
Predecessor2:J. Swagar Sherley
Successor2:Maurice Thatcher
Birth Date:4 February 1873
Birth Place:Charlestown, Indiana, U.S.
Death Place:Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.

Charles Franklin Ogden (February 4, 1873 – April 10, 1933) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.

Born in Charlestown, Indiana, Ogden graduated from Jeffersonville High School, Jeffersonville, Indiana. He graduated from the University of Louisville Law School, Louisville, Kentucky, 1896.

He was a lawyer in private practice. He served as member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1898 to 1899.Company H, Eighth Regiment, United States Volunteer Infantry, Spanish–American War.He was an unsuccessful candidate for county attorney in 1901. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Kentucky state senator in 1902.

Ogden was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the succeeding Congress (March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1923). He was not a candidate for renomination to the Sixty-eighth Congress in 1922.

He died on April 10, 1933, in Louisville, Kentucky.He was interred in Resthaven Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky.