List of personalities of the city of Ogden

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Photograph of the 89+ year old in Ogden, Utah, 1896

This list includes personalities related to the city ​​of Ogden , Utah , USA .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

The Osmonds with their stage show Kung Fu Fighting

Numerous personalities from the junction city of Ogden are associated with the railway era: entrepreneurs such as David Eccles and the Wattis brothers, but also Hollywood actors such as Robert Walker , Moroni Olsen and Gedde Watanabe . Ogden is the place of origin of the Osmonds , a teenage band of the 1970s, whose family members - Merrill , Donny , Marie - made the city known nationwide.

Several governors and vice-governors of the state of Utah emerged from the city : from 1941 to 1949 the democratic politician Herbert B. Maw (1893–1990) was governor, from 2009 to 2013 Greg Bell (* 1948) was vice governor and from 1993 to 2003 was the Republican politician Olene S. Walker (1930-2015) lieutenant governor and from 2003 to 2005 governor of the state of Utah.

Some representatives of the United States House of Representatives were born in Ogden: Frederick C. Loofbourow (1874–1949), Republican, had a seat in the 71st and 72nd  Congresses . Furthermore, from 1961 to 1963, the Democratic politician M. Blaine Peterson (1906–1985) represented the first constituency of the state of Utah in the US House of Representatives. Subsequently, the Republican politician Laurence J. Burton (1926-2002) represented the first constituency of the state of Utah in the US House of Representatives from 1963 to 1971 . Subsequently, from 1971 to 1981, the Democratic politician K. Gunn McKay (1925-2000) represented the first constituency of the state of Utah in the US House of Representatives. The Republican politician John R. Curtis (* 1960) has represented the state of Utah in the US House of Representatives since 2017 . The democratic politician Richard H. Stallings (* 1940), who was born in Ogden, represented the second constituency of the neighboring state of Idaho to the north in the US House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993 .

John Browning

The following list shows other personalities born in Ogden:

Personalities who have worked in the city

Jazz musician Joe McQueen , born in Texas in 1919 , was stranded in Ogden in 1945 when his tour manager lost the money from the band's cash desk in Las Vegas as stakes. McQueen has played with many jazz musicians who stopped in Utah during their tours, such as Charlie Parker , Chet Baker , Paul Gonsalves , Lester Young , Count Basie , Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie . Even at the age of 100, he still gives concerts. In his honor, the governor of Utah named April 18th Joe McQueen day in 2002 .

  • Jonathan Browning (1805–1879), armorer
  • Nolan Bushnell (* 1943), the founder of Atari , worked in Ogden for a while
  • Henry Van Brunt (1832-1903), an architect who built the station for the Union Pacific Railroad in Ogden
  • Simon Bamberger (1846–1926), politician, ran a hotel in Ogden, the first non-Mormon to become governor of Utah
  • Edwin R. Ridgely (1844–1927), politician, lived in Ogden from 1889 to 1893
  • William Wadsworth Hodkinson (1881–1971), opened his first film distributor in Ogden in 1907
  • Douglas R. Stringfellow (1922–1966), politician, represented the first constituency of the state of Utah in the US House of Representatives from 1953 to 1955
  • Anna Belle Weakley (1922-2008), led the Porters and Waiters Club as a woman and was known as the "Queen of 25th Street"

People who died in Ogden

Congressman Stephen Baker (1819-1875) died on June 9, 1875 on the way to California on the train near Ogden, during a trip he made for health reasons. His body was then interred in the Rural Cemetery in Poughkeepsie . On one of his lecture tours, the Danish writer and journalist Herman Bang (1857–1912) suffered a stroke on the train from New York City to San Francisco and died in the clinic of Ogden; his body was convicted and buried on Vestre Kirkegård in Copenhagen . The chemical engineer Fred C. Koch died in 1967 of a heart attack while hunting on the Bear River near Ogden. At the time, he was considered the richest man in Kansas . Opera singer Emma Abbott , born in Chicago in 1850, caught a cold in an unheated locker room in Ogden during an opera tour in December 1890, which led to pneumonia, of which she died unexpectedly in Salt Lake City in early 1891 at the age of only 40. The Republican politician Henry Aldous Dixon , who was born in Provo in 1890 and who represented the first constituency of the state of Utah in the US House of Representatives from 1955 to 1961, also died in Ogden in 1967.

Complete list of Ogden Police Chiefs

The local police began their work in 1855.

  • 1855-1859 Richard D. Sprague
  • 1859-1861 Francis A. Brown
  • 1861-1872 Green Taylor
  • 1872–1875 James Owen
  • 1875-1889 James B. Welch
  • 1889-1889 TH Ballantyne
  • 1889-1893 John W. Metcalf
  • 1893-1895 William A. Brown
  • 1895-1900 John E. Davenport
  • 1900-1902 John Conlisk
  • 1902-1912 Thomas E. Browning
  • 1912-1916 William Isaac Norton
  • 1916-1920 Thomas E. Browning
  • 1920-1922 Johnathon Jones
  • Curtis Allison, 1923-1926
  • 1926-1929 Johnathon Jones
  • 1929-1930 Harry S. Anderson
  • 1930-1934 AE Wilfong
  • 1934–1934 Rial C. Moore (PD & FD)
  • 1934-1934 George Finn
  • 1934-1934 Lavoli Hilton
  • 1934-1938 Rial C. Moore
  • 1938-1940 DF Hawkins
  • 1940-1942 Charles H. Taylor
  • 1942-1944 Rial C. Moore
  • 1944-1945 Theodore R. Johnson
  • 1946-1946 OH Petersen
  • 1947-1948 Clifford Keeter
  • 1948-1954 Ralph C. Moore
  • 1954–1960 Maurice Schoof
  • 1960–1963 Golden Jensen
  • 1963-1963 Ray Sanders
  • 1963-1963 Harry Needham
  • 1963-1966 Ernest Shaw
  • 1966–1976 LeRoy Jacobsen
  • 1976-1991 Joe H. Ritchie
  • 1991-1991 Robert G. Warren
  • 1991-1994 Michael D. Empey
  • 1994-1995 Arden K. Greenwood
  • 1995-2012 Jon J. Greiner
  • 2012–2012 Wayne Tarwater
  • 2012–2017 Mike Ashment
  • Since 2017 Steven R. Watt

Complete list of Weber County Sheriff 's of Ogden

In addition to the local police force, since 1852 Ogden has also been the seat of the Weber County Sheriff 's Office , a Weber County law enforcement agency that worked closely with the City Marshal and the city and county courts to enforce the law.

  • 1852-1855 Benjamin F. Cummings
  • 1856-1859 Henry Beckstead
  • 1860 -0000Lester J. Herrick
  • 1861 -0000L. Alvin West
  • 1862–1870 Gilbert Belnap
  • 1870-1883 William Brown
  • 1883-1884 Thomas J. Stevens
  • 1884-1894 Gilbert R. Belnap
  • 1895-1896 Heber Wright
  • 1899-1902 Charles E. Layne
  • 1903-1906 Joseph W. Bailey
  • 1908-1910 Barlow Wilson
  • 1911-1913 Edward E. Harrison
  • 1913-1916 Thomas A. Devine
  • 1917-1920 Herpert C. Peterson
  • 1921-1930 Richard D. Pincock
  • 1931-1934 Amasa M. Hammon
  • 1935-1937 Oscar Lowder
  • 1937-1946 John R. Watson
  • 1947-1954 Mac Wade
  • 1955-1966 LeRoy Hadley
  • 1967-1970 Wilson A. Allen
  • 1971–1978 Edward Ryan
  • 1978–1990 George Fisher
  • 1991-1997 Craig Deardon
  • 1997-2011 Brad Slater
  • 2011-2019 Terry L. Thompson
  • since 2019 Ryan Arbon

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ogden jazz saxophonist played with Count Basie, other greats , in: Deseret News of July 4, 2005, accessed: October 16, 2019.
  2. ↑ Austen Diamond: Joe McQueen Day , in: Salt Lake City Weekly of April 18, 2013, accessed: October 16, 2019.
  3. ↑ Katherine Kitterman: Anna Belle Weakley, The Queen of Ogden's 25th Street , in: Better Days 2020, accessed October 29, 2019.
  4. ↑ Beate Tröger: The love for deviation , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 5, 2007, viewed: October 18, 2019.
  5. ↑ Jane Mayer: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right. Doubleday, New York 2016. pp. 48f.
  6. ^ Ogden City Police Department. Est. 1855. A rich history , p. 13 (pdf), accessed: September 28, 2019.
  7. ↑ History of the WCSO , unblocked access via archive.org, accessed: October 17, 2019.

Web links

Commons : People of Ogden  - collection of images