Woodson R. Oglesby

Woodson R. Oglesby

Woodson Ratcliffe Oglesby (born February 9, 1867 in Shelbyville , Kentucky , † April 30, 1955 in Quincy , Florida ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1913 and 1917 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives . Congressman Richard J. Oglesby was his cousin.

Career

Woodson Ratcliffe Oglesby was born in Shelby County about two years after the Civil War ended . He attended public schools, Kentucky Wesleyan College (then in Millersburg ) and Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington . Oglesby studied law . After receiving his bar license in 1890, he began practicing in New York City . During the Spanish-American War he served as a privateer in Company C of the New York National Guard's 71st  Regiment . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In 1906 he was a member of the New York State Assembly . He took part in 1912 as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention .

In the 1912 congressional elections for the 63rd Congress , Oglesby was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 24th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded George Winthrop Fairchild on March 4, 1913 . He was re-elected once. In 1916 he ran unsuccessfully for the 65th Congress and then left the Congress after March 3, 1917 .

After his time in Congress he went back to his practice as a lawyer in New York City, which he exercised until his retirement in 1928. He lived in Yonkers and Quincy. On April 30, 1955, he died in Quincy and was then on the Eastern Cemetery in Quitman ( Georgia buried).

Web links

• Woodson R. Oglesby in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Woodson R. Oglesby in the database of Find a Grave (English)