Frederick Ogden
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Frederick Ogden was a British
United Kingdom
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 Liberal Party
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 politician. He was elected at the January 1910 general election as Member of Parliament
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 (MP) for the Pudsey division
Pudsey (UK Parliament constituency)
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 of the West Riding of Yorkshire
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, and held the seat until the constituency was abolished at the 1918 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1918
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. He contested the 1929 general election
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 in Bradford South
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, but did not win the seat.

A native of Leeds and carried on business in a boot factory. He was on the City Council as chairman of the waterworks committee.

A Primitive Methodist and also a local preacher in the body.

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