He was born in
Abingdon in
Washington County in far southwestern
Virginia. In 1851, he moved with his parents to
Warrensburg in
Johnson County in west central
Missouri, where he attended common schools. During the
American Civil War, he joined the
Confederate States of America Army, despite living in a state that had remained within the
Union. He rose 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 in
Caddo Parish in northwestern
Louisiana. There he remained and became a wealthy planter in adjacent
Bossier Parish. In 1879, Ogden was a member of the Louisiana constitutional convention and was elected to the
Louisiana House of Representatives from Bossier Parish. He was the
Speaker from 1884 to 1888. In 1894, he won a
special election as a
Democrat to the
United States House of Representatives. 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
seat of government. ==References==