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Anthony Ogden

1866 – 1943

(1866-1943) unionist, politician and mayor

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Lived 1866 – 1943 (aged 77). Anthony Ogden was a politician.

Anthony Ogden (18 March 1866 – 15 May 1943) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Biography Ogden was born in Grenoside, Yorkshire, the son of Anthony Ogden Snr. and his wife Ann (née Housley) and was educated in Sheffield. On leaving school he was an apprentice iron moulder before arriving in Queensland in 1884. He was a meatworker and later worked in a foundry and on the wharves of Townsville. He studied for the Wesleyan Church and at one stage was a local preacher.

On 19 November 1888 he married Mary Ann Gillott (died 1920) and together had two sons and five daughters. Ogden died at Townsville in May 1943 and was buried in the West End Cemetery.

Public career Having lost the 1893 Queensland colonial election by one vote, Ogden won the 1894 by-election for the seat of Townsville in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, defeating his Ministerialist opponent, Mr Willmett.

He was a long-term alderman on the Townsville City Council and in 1924 he became the city's mayor, holding the role until 1926. He unsuccessfully ran for mayor again in 1933.

Ogden was the secretary of the Meatworker's Union and the Watersiders' Federation of Australia. A prohibitionist, he was also the editor of Townsville Clarion.

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Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly

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(1866-1943) unionist, politician and mayor

When was Anthony Ogden born?

Anthony Ogden was born on 18 March 1866 in Grenoside.

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Anthony Ogden died on 15 May 1943 in Townsville.

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Anthony Ogden was a politician.

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