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INDIANAPOLIS—SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 1928 |
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J. M. OGDEN SEEKS HIGH LEGAL POST Former City Corporation Counsel in Race for Attorney Generalship Former City Corporation Counsel in Race for Attorney Generalship |
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James M. Ogden, Indianapolis attorney and corporation counsel of Indianapolis during the last two years of the administration of Samuel Lewis Shank as mayor of Indianapolis, yesterday announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for attorney general of Indiana. Nomination of the candidate for attorney general will be made by the Republican state convention next Thursday. Mr. Ogden is widely known among attorneys of the city and state, being a member of the American, Indiana State and Indianapolis bar associations, and having served on important committees of each organization and as president of the Indianapolis association for one term. He is the sixth to announce his candidacy for this nomination and the only resident of Indianapolis who is seeking the place. Lifelong Republican Mr. Ogden has been a lifelong Republican, and served from 1922 to 1924 under Mayor Shank as city attorney. When Taylor E. Groninger resigned his post of corporation counsel in 1924 Mayor Shank appointed Mr. Ogden as his successor. Mr. Ogden was a candidate in 1926 for the Republican nomination for representative in Congress from the Seventh district, running second in that race, in which a large field of contestants had entered. Mr. Ogden is at present a member of the board of managers of the state bar association, and a member of the American citizenship of the American Bar Association. He served in 1925 as president of the Indianapolis association. Graduated from DePauw He was graduated from DePauw university in 1894, and now is the oldest member of the board of trustees of that school in point of service, of any of the trustees elected by the alumni. After his graduation from DePauw, he entered Harvard law school, being admitted to the practice of law in Indianapolis immediately after his graduation from Harvard in 1899. He is a native of Danville, Ind. He has practiced law in Indianapolis since his admission to the bar, and is known widely as the author of two recognized books on law—"Ogden's Manual of Practice," and "Negotiable Instruments." Prominent in Affairs Mr. Ogden has been prominent in community, civic and church work in Indianapolis and Indiana for many years. He is a member of the state executive committee of the Y. M. C. A.; was director of the essay and oratorical contest on the Constitution last year, conducted by the state bar association, with the co-operation of the newspapers and schools. Mr. Ogden also served one term as state president of the Epworth League, being elected to that post one year after it was held by Senator James E. Watson, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. Mr. And Mrs. Odgen, who are the parents of three children, only one of whom is now living, reside at 3332 North Pennsylvania street in the same house they have occupied since their marriage. He is a member of the law firm of Ogden & Swain, with offices at 911 State Life building. Mr. Ogden, who is a contributor to a number of national law journals, is conducting an extensive campaign for delegate support in the state convention which opens next Wednesday at Cadle Tabernacle. [He apparently won both the nomination and the office, becoming the state Attorney General during 1929-1933.] |
