David Ogden

David Kevin Ogden (born 1944) is a former mayor of Lower Hutt in the Wellington region of New Zealand.

Biography Ogden was born in Newtown, Wellington, in 1944. He grew up in Miramar and attended Miramar North School and later Wellington High School where he was a prefect. After briefly considering architecture he studied accountancy at Victoria University. He did not graduate but became a chartered accountant working at Fletcher Construction. He later became head of finance at TV1. He is a justice of the peace. He was in rank 13 on the Future New Zealand party list.

He returned to the City Council for a term from 1998 to 2001. In 2001 he was elected to the Hutt Valley District Health Board. Ogden was first elected mayor in 2004, beating incumbent Mayor John Terris running on a pledge to reduce debt, limit rates and fix flooding problems. His campaign benefited greatly after Terris was hospitalised with blood poisoning at the start of the election campaign. but was defeated in 2010 by sitting councillor Ray Wallace.

In 2016 he was elected for a second time to the Regional Council. After moving from Lower Hutt to the Kāpiti Coast. In 2022 he stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Kāpiti Coast District Council in the Paraparaumu Ward.

Personal life He first married in 1965 with whom he had three children before divorcing in 1996. He remarried in 1997, though the marriage was only to last a few weeks.