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ROBERT
CLARENCE OGDEN
Robert Clarence
Ogden, attorney, was born in Oakland, California on December 7, 1889; the son
of Frank Burroughs and Laura Irene (Macdonald) Ogden.
He received his preliminary
schooling in Oakland (California) public schools and Belmont Military Academy.
Graduated from the University of California in 1914 with degree of B.S.,
majoring in chemistry. He was employed in research in the field of nutritive
chemistry. He returned to study at Boalt Hall,
University of California, in 1915 and was admitted to practice on March 12,
1917.
In 1918, he served under Charles Fickert as special deputy district attorney of San
Francisco. He resigned to manage the campaign of his father, Judge Frank B.
Ogden for re-election. His father was hospitalized for the entire time until he
died two weeks before election.
Clarence Ogden continued active in
politics until after the election of his brother Frank M. Ogden to the office
of Judge of the Superior Court of California in Alameda County. He played a
very active part in the election in 1926 of the Honorable William H. Waste as
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California and in 1930 took charge of the
campaign which resulted in the election of his younger brother by an
overwhelming majority (two and one-half to one) in Alameda County as Superior
Judge.
After the election of his brother in
1930, he confined his activities to his practice of law. He refused to accept
any employment in contested matters that came within jurisdiction of the
Alameda County court upon which his brother was one of the judges and has
refused to take part in any political controversies until after his brother’s
death in 1948. He calls himself with pride a “Hoover and Taft Republican.”
He holds membership in Masonic
fraternities; Gamma Eta Kappa, Delta Upsilon, and Phi
Alpha Delta fraternities. His hobby is model engineering.
In the year 1930, Mr. Ogden married
Mary McLean. Their home is at 358 Camino Del Mar, San Francisco, California.
Offices: 68 Post Street (seventh floor), San
Francisco, California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Pages 445-446, C. W. Taylor Publ., Palo
Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
San Francisco County Biographies