Darius Adams Ogden (August 14, 1813 Northville,

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– May 4, 1889

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) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

He was the son of Ezekiel Ogden (1772–1824) and Abigail Brandt (1775–1860). On December 18, 1834, he married Judith Ann Lawrence (1815–1895). He was a Canal Appraiser from 1853 to 1854. Afterwards he was appointed by President

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U.S. Consul at

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, then in the

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, and stayed there until 1857. He was a delegate to the

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. He was a member of the

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(Yates Co.) in

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. He helped New York Governor

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to break up the corrupt

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, and shortly afterwards was the last Canal Commissioner, elected in

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, on the Democratic ticket. The office of Canal Commissioner was abolished by an amendment to the New York State Constitution, ratified at the same state election, pending the appointment of a Superintendent of Public Works. The Canal Commissioners remained in office until February 8, 1878, when the first Superintendent of Public Works, Benjamin S. W. Clark, qualified to take over the duties from the remaining two Canal Commissioners Ogden and Christopher A. Walrath. He was appointed by Governor

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to the Prison Labor Commission in 1884. In 1885, he declined an appointment as Chief of Division in the Third Auditor's Office of the U.S. Treasury. His son Charles E. Ogden was a member of the State Assembly from

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in 1904.

Sources

''The Ogden Family in America, Elizabethtown Branch''
(Philadelphia, 1907)
''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 43; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pages 406, 496 and 517)
''SKETCHES OF THE CANDIDATES''
in NYT on September 1, 1876This is a very sketchy "sketch": It underestimates his age at "about fifty" e was 63 gives a wrong birthplace "Yates County" e was born in Cayuga County and misplaces in time his consulship as "under James Buchanan" t was during Pierce's administration
''LEGISLATION AT ALBANY - Mr. Howe's Prison Commission Bill Passed''
in NYT on April 4, 1884
''NOTES FROM WASHINGTON''
in NYT on June 10, 1885

Appointments by Dem. governors, in NYT on December 12, 1887
''OPENING OF LEGISLATURE''
in NYT on January 3, 1904

Political Graveyard

History of the consuls at Honolulu

Notes

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