James Ernest Ogden (8 March 1868 – 5 February 1932) was an Australian politician who was elected to the

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and the

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Early life

Ogden was born at Durdidwarrah, near

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and educated at Steiglitz State School until he was 14 and then worked at a variety of jobs in different parts of Australia. From 1896 until 1906 he was a prospector and miner on the west-coast of

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. He married Emma Etta Colls in 1897. He was later president of the Tasmanian branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association.

State politics

Ogden was elected to the

seat of

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for the Labor Party at the 1906 election. As a result of its abolition he stood for and won one of the seats of Darwin at the 1909 election. In October 1909, he was appointed treasurer in John Earle's minority Labor government, but it lasted only a week. In 1914, Earle returned to power and Ogden became chief secretary and minister for mines and labour until Labor's defeat in April 1916. Ogden was elected state ALP leader in October 1919, when

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resigned in order to stand for federal parliament. Lyons' candidacy was unsuccessful, and he resumed the state leadership in August 1920.

Federal politics

Ogden resigned from the House of Assembly to contest the 1922 election for the Senate and won, holding his seat until his death. In 1925, he supported the

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's government's legislation on navigation and immigration, because he considered that the militant Seamen's Union—which it affected—was harmful to Tasmania, an island state. As a result, he was expelled by the Tasmanian branch of the Labor Party, and subsequently sat as an independent. At the 1928 election, he won re-election as a

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and he was appointed honorary minister and assistant minister for industry in the

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from November 1928, until its defeat at the October 1929 election. He died in the Hobart suburb of Moonah.

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ogden, James Ernest Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Australian Senate for Tasmania Members of the Australian Senate Members of the Cabinet of Australia Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly 1868 births 1932 deaths Treasurers of Tasmania United Australia Party members of the Parliament of Australia Independent members of the Parliament of Australia 20th-century Australian politicians