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American soldier, lawyer and politician (1756–1839)

Aaron Ogden portrait by Asher Brown Durand 5th Governor of New Jersey In office October 29, 1812 – October 29, 1813 Preceded by Joseph Bloomfield Succeeded by William Sanford Pennington United States Senator from New Jersey In office February 28, 1801 – March 3, 1803 Preceded by James Schureman Succeeded by John Condit Member of the New Jersey General Assembly In office 1803–1812 Personal details Born (1756-12-03)December 3, 1756 Elizabethtown, Province of New Jersey, British America Died April 19, 1839(1839-04-19) (aged 82) Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. Party Federalist Spouse Elizabeth Chetwood Relations Matthias Ogden (brother) Frederick Ogden (grandson) William Chetwood (brother-in-law) Children 7, including Elias Alma mater College of New Jersey Military service Allegiance United States Branch/service Continental Army Rank Brigade major Unit 1st New Jersey Regiment Battles/wars Revolutionary War

**Aaron Ogden** (December 3, 1756 – April 19, 1839) was an American soldier, lawyer, [United States Senator](/source/United_States_Senate) and the fifth [governor of New Jersey](/source/Governor_of_New_Jersey).[1] Ogden is perhaps best known today as the complainant in *[Gibbons v. Ogden](/source/Gibbons_v._Ogden)* which destroyed the monopoly power of steamboats on the Hudson River in 1824.[2][3]

## Early life

Ogden was born in [Elizabethtown](/source/Elizabeth%2C_New_Jersey) (known today as "Elizabeth") in the [Province of New Jersey](/source/Province_of_New_Jersey). He was the son of Robert Ogden, a lawyer and public official who served as Speaker of the New Jersey lower house immediately preceding the Revolution,[3] and Phebe ([née](/source/N%C3%A9e) Hatfield) Ogden.[4] Ogden's brother [Matthias Ogden](/source/Matthias_Ogden) (1754–1791) was a Revolutionary War soldier and his nephew, [Daniel Haines](/source/Daniel_Haines), also served as Governor of New Jersey on two separate occasions.[5]

Ogden, a [Presbyterian](/source/Presbyterian), graduated from the College of New Jersey (now [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University)) in 1773, and served as a grammar school tutor from 1773 to 1775.[6]

## Career

In the [American Revolutionary War](/source/American_Revolutionary_War), Ogden was appointed a lieutenant in the [1st New Jersey Regiment](/source/1st_New_Jersey_Regiment); his older brother Matthias Ogden was the lieutenant colonel. Aaron Ogden served in various roles throughout the war, seeing action and rising to the rank of brigade major.[7] In 1778, he visited the house occupied by the family of diarist [Sally Wister](/source/Sally_Wister), who described him as "a genteel young fellow, with an aquiline nose."[8] Ogden was wounded at the [siege of Yorktown](/source/Siege_of_Yorktown) in 1781.[9]

Ogden was admitted as an original member of The [Society of the Cincinnati](/source/Society_of_the_Cincinnati) in the state of New Jersey when it was established in 1783.[10][11] He went on to serve as the President of the New Jersey Society from 1824 until his death in 1839, and President General of The Society of the Cincinnati from 1829 until his death.[9][12]

### Political career

After the war, Ogden studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1784. He commenced practice in Elizabeth and served as a presidential elector in the [1796 electoral college](/source/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1796) that elected [John Adams](/source/John_Adams). He was clerk of [Essex County](/source/Essex_County%2C_New_Jersey) from 1785 to 1803.

He was elected as a [Federalist](/source/Federalist_Party_(United_States)) to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [James Schureman](/source/James_Schureman) and served from February 28, 1801, to March 3, 1803. He lost his bid for re-election to the Senate in 1802.[1] Ogden ran several times for [New Jersey's at-large congressional district](/source/New_Jersey's_at-large_congressional_district), finishing 6th in 1800 (with the top 5 winning),[13] and also running in 1803,[14] 1804,[15] 1806,[16] 1808 (both in the regular and special elections),[17][18] and 1810.[19]

In 1803, Ogden was elected to the [New Jersey General Assembly](/source/New_Jersey_General_Assembly), where he served until 1812. Ogden was elected trustee of the College of New Jersey (later to become Princeton University) in 1803, a post in which he served until his death.[1]

In 1812, Ogden was elected as [Governor of New Jersey](/source/Governor_of_New_Jersey) in a wave of Federalist victories across the state due to opposition to the [War of 1812](/source/War_of_1812).[3] Ogden had been nominated by his Federalist colleagues as governor many times before, but the Republicans held the majority in the Assembly and elected their choice from 1803 to 1812.[3] During his term as governor, "funds were secured for the military's use in the war against Britain."[20] After running unsuccessfully for re-election, the Federalists lost their majority in the Assembly and Ogden retired from political life.[3] Ogden was nominated by President [James Madison](/source/James_Madison) as major general of the Army in 1813, but declined the appointment.[1]

### Steamboat operations

In 1811, he became engaged in steamboat navigation by building the [steamboat](/source/Steamboat) *Sea Horse* to run between Elizabeth and [New York City](/source/New_York_City).[21] In 1812, in *Livingston v. Van Ingen*, the courts chose to upheld a steamboat monopoly over the [Hudson River](/source/Hudson_River).[22][23] In 1813, the [New York State Legislature](/source/New_York_State_Legislature) further upheld the monopoly created by Chancellor [Robert Livingston](/source/Robert_Livingston_(1746%E2%80%931813)) and [Robert Fulton](/source/Robert_Fulton), who had designed the steamboat.[24] In response, Ogden agreed to pay them for a ten-year monopoly to run his line.[21]

As a result of a feud with his neighbor and competing steamboat operator who violated the statutory monopoly, [Thomas Gibbons](/source/Thomas_Gibbons_(politician)), Ogden filed the complaint in *Gibbons v. Ogden*, seeking to enjoin Gibbons from operating a steamboat on New York waters.[25] As a result, the [United States Supreme Court](/source/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States) declared unconstitutional [New York](/source/New_York_(state))'s attempted monopoly on steamboat operation between New York and New Jersey based on the Commerce Clause.[26] In the case, decided by the [U.S. Supreme Court](/source/U.S._Supreme_Court) in 1824, Ogden was represented by [Samuel L. Southard](/source/Samuel_L._Southard) and [Joseph Hopkinson](/source/Joseph_Hopkinson), while Livingston was represented by [Thomas Addis Emmet](/source/Thomas_Addis_Emmet), and Gibbons by [Daniel Webster](/source/Daniel_Webster) and [U.S. Attorney General](/source/U.S._Attorney_General) [William Wirt](/source/William_Wirt_(Attorney_General)).[27]

### Later life

Ogden moved to [Jersey City](/source/Jersey_City%2C_New_Jersey) in 1829 and resumed the practice of law. It was in Jersey City where he was arrested for debt and sent to a debtors' prison.[9] He was released several months later under an act of the Legislature that provided "that no Revolutionary officer or soldier should be imprisoned for debt. The law was so framed as to cover the case of Col. Ogden, and he was released."[9] In 1830, he was appointed as [Collector of Customs](/source/Collector_of_the_Port_of_New_York) of Jersey City, an office created specifically for him by an act of Congress,[9] and served until his death in Jersey City.[1]

## Personal life

Aaron Ogden Monument, First Presbyterian Churchyard, Elizabeth, NJ

Ogden was married to Elizabeth Chetwood (1766–1826), the daughter of John Chetwood, an attorney, and Mary (née Emott) Chetwood (d. 1786). She was the older sister of [U.S. Representative](/source/U.S._Representative) and [Mayor of Elizabeth](/source/Mayor_of_Elizabeth%2C_New_Jersey) [William Chetwood](/source/William_Chetwood) (1771–1857). Together, they were the parents of:[9]

- Mary Chetwood Ogden (1789–1863), who was married to George Clinton Barber.[9]

- Phebe Ann Ogden (1790–1865), who served as Vice Regent of the [Mount Vernon Ladies' Association](/source/Mount_Vernon_Ladies'_Association).[9]

- Matthias Ogden (1792–1860), who married Lucille Robert.[9]

- John Robert Ogden (1794–1845).[9]

- Elias Bailey Dayton Ogden (1797–1799), who died young.[9]

- [Elias Bailey Dayton Ogden](/source/Elias_B._D._Ogden) (1800–1865), who was named after his deceased brother. Elias, who married three times, served as an [associate justice](/source/Associate_justice) of the [New Jersey Supreme Court](/source/New_Jersey_Supreme_Court) from 1842 until his death in 1865.[9]

- Aaron Ogden Jr. (1803–1803), who died young.[9]

Ogden died in Jersey City, [New Jersey](/source/New_Jersey) on April 19, 1839. Ogden's body is interred at the burial ground of the [First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth](/source/First_Presbyterian_Church_of_Elizabeth).[1] Ogden Street in [Trenton, New Jersey](/source/Trenton%2C_New_Jersey) is named in his honor.[28]

He was a slaveholder.[29]

### Descendants

Through his son Elias, he was the grandfather of [Frederick Beasley Ogden](/source/Frederick_B._Ogden) (1827–1893), who served as [Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey](/source/Mayor_of_Hoboken%2C_New_Jersey) from 1865 to 1867; Aaron Ogden (1828–1896), who married Harriet Emily Travers; and Susan Dayton Ogden (1831–1878), who married [William Shepard Biddle](/source/John_Biddle_(Michigan_politician)), and were the parents of [U.S. Army](/source/U.S._Army) general [John Biddle](/source/John_Biddle_(United_States_Army_general)).[30]

## See also

- [List of governors of New Jersey](/source/List_of_governors_of_New_Jersey)

- [Gibbons v. Ogden](/source/Gibbons_v._Ogden)

## References

**Notes**

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-AObioguide_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-AObioguide_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-AObioguide_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-AObioguide_1-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-AObioguide_1-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-AObioguide_1-5) ["OGDEN, Aaron - Biographical Information"](https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000041). *bioguide.congress.gov*. [Biographical Directory of the United States Congress](/source/Biographical_Directory_of_the_United_States_Congress). Retrieved February 23, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U.S. 1 (1824)"](https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/22/1/). *Justia Law*. Retrieved June 30, 2022.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Birkner2014_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Birkner2014_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Birkner2014_3-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-Birkner2014_3-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-Birkner2014_3-4) Birkner, Michael J.; Linky, Donald; Mickulas, Peter (2014). [*The Governors of New Jersey: Biographical Essays*](https://books.google.com/books?id=alrqAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1789). [Rutgers University Press](/source/Rutgers_University_Press). p. 1789. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780813571775](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780813571775).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["The New Netherlands Ancestors of Aaron Ogden"](https://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nnnotables/zaaog.html). *Rootsweb*. Ancestry.com.

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1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Sally Wister, ‘‘Sally Wister's Journal: A True Narrative: Being a Quaker Maiden's Account of Her Experiences with Officers of the Continental Army, 1777–1779’’. Applewood Books, Bedford, Massachusetts, 1994. Entry for May 11, 1778.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Alstyne1907_9-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Alstyne1907_9-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Alstyne1907_9-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-Alstyne1907_9-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-Alstyne1907_9-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-Alstyne1907_9-5) [***g***](#cite_ref-Alstyne1907_9-6) [***h***](#cite_ref-Alstyne1907_9-7) [***i***](#cite_ref-Alstyne1907_9-8) [***j***](#cite_ref-Alstyne1907_9-9) [***k***](#cite_ref-Alstyne1907_9-10) [***l***](#cite_ref-Alstyne1907_9-11) [***m***](#cite_ref-Alstyne1907_9-12) Alstyne, Lawrence Van; Ogden, Charles Burr (1907). [*The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry: John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants, 1640-1906*](https://archive.org/details/ogdenfamilyiname00whee). Printed for private circulation by J.B. Lippincott company. p. [138](https://archive.org/details/ogdenfamilyiname00whee/page/138). Retrieved February 23, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Metcalf, Bryce (1938). *Original Members and Other Officers Eligible to the Society of the Cincinnati, 1783–1938: With the Institution, Rules of Admission, and Lists of the Officers of the General and State Societies* Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., p. 239.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** ["Officers Represented in the Society of the Cincinnati"](https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/soldiers-and-sailors-of-the-revolutionary-war/officers-represented-in-the-society-of-the-cincinnati/). *The American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati*. Retrieved April 9, 2021.

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1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-nysed_21-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-nysed_21-1) ["Steamboats on the Hudson: An American Saga - Aaron Ogden"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180409040450/http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/mssc/steamboats/player_ogden.htm). *www.nysl.nysed.gov*. [New York State Library](/source/New_York_State_Library). Archived from [the original](https://www.nysl.nysed.gov/mssc/steamboats/player_ogden.htm) on April 9, 2018. Retrieved February 23, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-nycourts1_22-0)** ["Livingston v. Van Ingen | New York Steamboat Monopoly"](http://www.nycourts.gov/history/legal-history-new-york/legal-history-eras-02/history-new-york-legal-eras-livingston-van-ingen.html). *www.nycourts.gov*. The Historical Society of the New York Courts. Retrieved February 23, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-nycourts_23-0)** ["Gibbons v. Ogden"](https://www.nycourts.gov/history/legal-history-new-york/legal-history-eras-02/history-new-york-legal-eras-gibbons-ogden.html). *www.nycourts.gov*. The Historical Society of the New York Courts. Retrieved February 23, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Athearn1988_24-0)** Athearn, Robert G. (1988). [*American Heritage Illustrated History of the United States*](https://books.google.com/books?id=jgTYAAAAMAAJ&q=Thomas+Gibbons+(1757-1826)). Choice Pub. p. 164. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780945260059](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780945260059). Retrieved February 22, 2018.

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1. **[^](#cite_ref-Cox2009_27-0)** Cox, Thomas H. (2009). [*Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic*](https://books.google.com/books?id=OcU6AQAAIAAJ&q=Thomas+Gibbons+(1757-1826)). [Ohio University Press](/source/Ohio_University_Press). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780821418468](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780821418468). Retrieved February 22, 2018.

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## External links

- United States Congress. ["Aaron Ogden (id: O000041)"](http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000041). *[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress](/source/Biographical_Directory_of_the_United_States_Congress)*. Retrieved on 2009-02-26

- [Biography of Aaron Ogden (PDF)](https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20060326053459/http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Governors_of_New_Jersey/GODGE.pdf), [New Jersey State Library](/source/New_Jersey_State_Library)

- [New Jersey Governor Aaron Ogden](https://web.archive.org/web/20070930034543/http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=a2eb4fc0d5049010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD), [National Governors Association](/source/National_Governors_Association)

- [Dead Governors of New Jersey bio for Aaron Ogden](https://web.archive.org/web/20060512211233/http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2rdt7/DGovs/deadgovernorsnj.html#ogden)

- [The Society of the Cincinnati](https://www.societyofthecincinnati.org)

- [American Revolution Institute](https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/soldiers-and-sailors-of-the-revolutionary-war/officers-represented-in-the-society-of-the-cincinnati/)

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