Charlton Greenwood Ogburn
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Ogburn in 1920
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| Born |
Charlton Greenwood Ogburn 19 August 1882 Butler, Georgia |
| Died | 26 February 1962 (aged 79) |
| Nationality | US |
| Occupation | lawyer; writer |
| Years active | 1919–1952 |
| Notable work |
The Lawyer and Democracy This Star of England |
Charlton Greenwood Ogburn (19 August 1882, Butler, Georgia – 26 February 1962) was a lawyer who served as a public official in various capacities from 1917 through to the 1930s. He was employed as legal counsel both for government corporations and labor organizations. His most widely recognized work was undertaken as counsel for the American Federation of Labor in the 1930s.
He later became a noted advocate for the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship, which asserts that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was the real author of Shakespeare's works. He published two major books on the topic, co-written with his wife Dorothy.
Ogburn was the son of yet another Charlton Greenwood Ogburn and Irene Florence Wynn. His brother William Fielding Ogburn (June 29, 1886 – April 27, 1959) became an influential sociologist responsible for popularizing the idea of "culture lag" to describe the difficulties cultures have in adjusting to new technology or other changes. On 8 June 1910, Ogburn married Dorothy Stevens, born 8 June 1890 in Atlanta, daughter of George Webb Stevens and Abbie Dyson Bean. In the 1930s Dorothy published mystery novels set in Georgia.
Ogburn studied law, graduating from Mercer University in 1905 and then attending Harvard Law School in 1906-1907. He worked in Savannah, Georgia until 1919, when he moved to New York. A member of the New York Bar from 1921, he worked in corporate law.
After America entered World War I he became an examiner of the National War Labor Board, serving from 1917-1919.
In 1918, he was tasked to take a leading role in a government investigation of the electric railway industry, becoming the legal counsel and executive secretary of the Federal Electric Railway Commission. In 1920, he wrote an article on the work of the commission and its report in the Electric Railway Journal.
He also had a number of administrative posts, and published on legal matters. His most notable writings were essays on the relationship between the law and public policy, Government and Labor and The Lawyer and Democracy (1915). Between 1949 and 1952 he served on the Counsel of the American Bar Association's Interprofessional Commission on Marriage and Divorce Laws.
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