Career
He represented Guysborough in the Canadian House of Commons from 1878 to 1882 as a Liberal-Conservative member. He was born in Portuguese Elgin, New Brunswick, the son of John F. Ogden, of United Empire Loyalist descent, and was educated there. Ogden settled in Cape Canso, Nova Scotia.
Ogden was unsuccessful in bids for reelection to the House of Commons in 1882 and 1891.
He died in Bedford, Nova Scotia at the age of.