OGG, FREDERIC AUSTIN: 1878-
Frederic Austin Ogg , son of William R. and Sarah S. Ogg, was born in Solsberry, Ind., on Feb. 8, 1878, and graduated from De Pauw University in 1899. He received the A.M. degree from Indiana University in 1900, from Harvard in 1904, and the Ph.D. from Harvard in 1908. He married Emma Virginia Perry on Sept. 9, 1903.
After teaching history for two years at Indianapolis Manual Training High School and for one year at Indiana University, he went to Harvard in 1903 as a fellow and assistant in history. From 1905 to 1914 he was in the history department at Simmons College, and after 1914 he served on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, as professor of political science and, after 1925, as chairman of the graduate division of social studies.
He served as associate editor and later as managing editor of the AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW and contributed numerous articles to current periodicals.
Information from Who's Who in America and De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920.
- The Opening of the Mississippl–a Struggle for
Supremacy in the American Interior. New York,
1904.
- Social Progress in Contemporary Europe. New
York, 1912.
- The Governments of Europe. New
York, 1913.
- Daniel Webster. Philadelphia,
1914.
- Economic Development of Modern Europe. New
York, 1917.
- National Governments and the World War (withCharles A. Beard). New York, 1917.
- National Progress, 1907-17. New
York, 1918.
- The Old Northwest; a Chronicle of the Ohio Valley and
Beyond. New Haven, Conn., 1919.
- The Reign of Andrew Jackson; a Chronicle of the Frontier in
Politics. New Haven, Conn., 1919.
- Introduction to American Government (withP. O. Ray). New York, 1922.
- Builders of the Republic. New Haven,
Conn., 1927
- Research in the Humanistic and Social Sciences.
New York, 1928.
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- English Government and Politics. New
York, 1929.
- Essentials of American Government (withP. O. Ray). New York, 1932.
- European Governments and Politics. New
York, 1934.
- Rise of Dictatorship in France. New
York, 1941.
