Charlton Ogburn, Sr.

Charlton Ogburn, Sr. was born in Butler, Georgia, in 1882, the son of planter Charlton Greenwood Ogburn and Irene Wynne Ogburn. He graduated from Gainesville [Georgia] High School in 1898, received his A. B. in 1902 and LL.B in 1905 from Mercer University, and attended Harvard Law School, 1906-1907. He began his law practice in Savannah, Georgia, where he remained until 1919. Admitted to the New York Bar in 1921, he represented many New York corporations there and in Washington …