About Robert N. Ogden, Jr.
Lived 1839 – 1905 (aged 65). Robert N. Ogden, Jr. was an American lawyer and politician.
Robert Nash Ogden Jr (May 5, 1839 – April 16, 1905 ) was an author, Confederate lieutenant colonel, judge, orator, poet, lawyer and Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
Robert Nash Ogden Jr was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on May 5, 1839, to Robert Nash Ogden and Frances Sophia Nicholson. He attended the University of North Carolina for two and a half years. He studied law under Frederick Nash at Hillsboro, North Carolina. During the American Civil War he served under Brigadier General James Patrick Major for the Confederate Army with the rank of lieutenant colonel. When the war was over he returned to Louisiana and entered politics. After having been elected to the State Legislature, he served as Speaker of the House of Representatives (1880–1884). Dreams of the past! and The Light of Thine Eyes.
He is the father of author Edith Ogden Harrison and the father-in-law of Carter Harrison IV (who served as mayor of Chicago).
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American politician (1839-1905)
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Robert N. Ogden, Jr. was born on 5 May 1839.
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Robert N. Ogden, Jr. died on 16 April 1905.
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Robert N. Ogden, Jr. was a lawyer and politician.
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Robert N. Ogden, Jr. was American.
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