Born in Decatur, Illinois, on March 19, 1873, he was the son of Illinois Governor Richard James Oglesby and Emma Gillet Oglesby, a member of the prominent Oglesby political family of Kentucky and Illinois.[1] Oglesby served in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War and was a member of Illinois House of Representatives in 1905.Oglesby was a delegate from Illinois to the Republican National Conventions in 1920, 1924, 1928, and 1932.Oglesby was a delegate to the Illinois convention to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1933.This article about a Member of the Illinois House of Representatives is a stub.