Charles Ogle (politician)

Charles Ogle (1798 – May 10, 1841) was an Anti-Masonic and Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Charles Ogle (son of Alexander Ogle and uncle of Andrew Jackson Ogle) was born in Somerset, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1822 and commenced practice in Somerset. He served on the Common Pleas Bench for Lancaster County.^[2] He graduated from Washington College (now Washington & Jefferson College) in 1817.^[3] Ogle was elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses. He was reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress and served until his death in Somerset in 1841. His "Gold Spoon Oration" (1840) mocked the supposed grandeur of President Martin Van Buren, contributing to the latter's loss to William Henry Harrison later that year. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Roads and Canals during the Twenty-sixth Congress.^[4]

He died of tuberculosis on 10 May 1841, in his home in Somerset Pennsylvania,^[5] and was buried in Union Cemetery.^[6]

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