David Ogden (politician)

For other people named David Ogden, see David Ogden (disambiguation).

David Ogden
Ogden in 2010
18th Mayor of Lower Hutt
In office October 2004 – 9 October 2010
Deputy	Roger Styles
Preceded by	John Terris
Succeeded by	Ray Wallace
Personal details
Born	1944 (age 80–81) Wellington, New Zealand
Political party	Future New Zealand (1999)
Profession	Accountant

David Kevin Ogden JP (born 1944) is a former mayor of Lower Hutt in the Wellington region of New Zealand.

Biography

Ogden was born in Newtown, Wellington, in 1944. He grew up in Miramar and attended Miramar North School and later Wellington High School where he was a prefect. After briefly considering architecture he studied accountancy at Victoria University. He did not graduate but became a chartered accountant working at Fletcher Construction. He later became head of finance at TV1.^[1] He is a justice of the peace.^[2]

He first stood for political office in 1980 and was elected to the Lower Hutt City Council on the United Citizens ticket of then-mayor John Kennedy-Good. Re-elected in 1983, he chose not to stand again in 1986 to focus on accountancy.^[3] In 1992 he was elected to the Wellington Regional Council before failing in re-election bids in 1995 and 1998.^[1] Ogden stood in the 1999 election in the Hutt South electorate for Future New Zealand and gained 1.57% of the electorate vote.^[4] He was in rank 13 on the Future New Zealand party list.^[5]

He returned to the City Council for a term from 1998 to 2001. In 2001 he was elected to the Hutt Valley District Health Board.^[2] Ogden was first elected mayor in 2004, beating incumbent Mayor John Terris running on a pledge to reduce debt, limit rates and fix flooding problems. His campaign benefited greatly after Terris was hospitalised with blood poisoning at the start of the election campaign.^[1] He was re-elected in 2007 with a reduced majority,^[6] but was defeated in 2010 by sitting councillor Ray Wallace.^[7][8]

In 2016 he was elected for a second time to the Regional Council.^[9] After moving from Lower Hutt to the Kāpiti Coast. In 2022 he stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Kāpiti Coast District Council in the Paraparaumu Ward.^[10]

Personal life

He first married in 1965 with whom he had three children before divorcing in 1996. He remarried in 1997, though the marriage was only to last a few weeks.^[1] In 2000 He met American-born lawyer Teresa Shreves who he married in 2007.^[11]

Notes

1. Lane, Nicholas (7 October 2006). "Tough lessons for a political do-gooder". The Dominion Post. p. A8.
2. "David Ogden" (PDF). Hutt Valley Health District Board. Hutt City. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
3. McGill 1991, pp. 216.
4. "Candidate vote details – Hutt South". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
5. "Party Lists of Unsuccessful Registered Parties". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
6. Boyack, Nicholas (20 July 2010). "Ray Wallace confirms he'll take on Ogden for Hutt mayoralty". The Hutt News. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
7. Nichols, Lane (9 October 2010). "New mayor for Lower Hutt". The Dominion Post. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
8. Boyack, Nicholas (13 October 2010). "Wallace topples Ogden for Hutt mayoralty". The Dominion Post. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
9. "Lower Hutt constituency – Preliminary results" (PDF). Greater Wellington Regional Council. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
10. "LGE 2022 - Preliminary" (PDF). Kāpiti Coast District Council. 9 October 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
11. "Marriage can't halt mayor's jog". The Dominion Post. 23 February 2007. p. A6.

References

• McGill, David (1991). Lower Hutt – The First Garden City. Petone, New Zealand: Lower Hutt City Council. ISBN 1-86956-003-5.
• "Election profile" in The Dominion Post of 18 September 2004 page A8

Political offices
Preceded by John Terris	Mayor of Lower Hutt 2004–2010	Succeeded by Ray Wallace