Roger Ogden
Roger Ogden was born in 1946 in Denver, Colorado, and moved with his parents to Shreveport, Louisiana, just after his birth. In 1964, he graduated from Lafayette High School, and entered LSU that same year. He joined Kappa Sigma fraternity and served as Freshman Class President. He was a Senatorial Intern to Russell Long in the summer of 1967 and was LSU Student Body President from 1967-1968. He graduated from LSU in 1968, and is a 1971 graduate of Tulane University Law School. Ogden worked in corporate litigation for several years with Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer and Matthews Law Firm in New Orleans. In 1975, with LSU classmate James Maurin, he founded Maurin-Ogden, Inc., a real estate development company. Ogden served on the LSU Board of Supervisors, LSU Alumni Association, LSU Foundation, and was involved with the university in many other ways. He is active in countless civic and professional organizations, and has a large art collection that was the basis for the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans.
Ogden’s interview is housed in the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History at LSU Libraries Special Collections. Ogden, Roger, interview by Pamela Dean, audio recording, 1994, 4700.0519. Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.