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Alexander Ogle
Alexander Ogle (August 10, 1766 – October 14, 1832) was an American politician who served as a Jackson Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 1817 to 1819. Early life Ogle was born August 10, 1766 in Frederick, Maryland. In 1795, he moved to Somerset, Pennsylvania. He is the father of Charles Ogle and grandfather of Andrew Jackson Ogle Career He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1803, 1804, 1807, 1808, and 1811. During the war of 1812, he served as major general in the Pennsylvania militia, commanding the 12th division, comprising recruits from Somerset, Bedford and Cambria counties. He worked as prothonotary, recorder of deeds, and clerk of courts from 1812 to 1817. He owned slaves. Ogle was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1818. He served again as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson Democrat
Jacksonian democracy was a 19th-century political philosophy in the United States that expanded suffrage to most white men over the age of 21, and restructured a number of federal institutions. Originating with the seventh U.S. president, Andrew Jackson and his supporters, it became the nation's dominant political worldview for a generation. The term itself was in active use by the 1830s. This era, called the Jacksonian Era or Second Party System by historians and political scientists, lasted roughly from Jackson's 1828 election as president until slavery became the dominant issue with the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act in 1854 and the political repercussions of the American Civil War dramatically reshaped American politics. It emerged when the long-dominant Democratic-Republican Party became factionalized around the 1824 United States presidential election. Jackson's supporters began to form the modern Democratic Party. His political rivals John Quincy Adams and Henry Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
