Career
Born in Rosetown, Saskatchewan, he was ordained priest in 1953. He was elected to the House of Commons as a New Democratic Party candidate for the Saskatchewan riding of Saskatoon East in the 1979 federal election and was re-elected in the 1980 election. He did not run in 1984, when he was instructed by the Vatican not to be involved in politics.
He was the author of four books:
Faculties of Military Chaplains (1957),
When the Snake Bites the Sun (1977),
NorthSouth Calling (1986), and
A Manitoba of Letters (1990).
The Saint Pius X Seminary at the University of Saskatchewan was renamed Ogle Hall after his death.