Maureen Black Ogden (November 1, 1928 – August 17, 2022) was an American Republican Party politician who served seven terms in the New Jersey General Assembly between 1982 and 1996.
[5] Ogden was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly to represent the 22nd District in 1981 with running mate Bob Franks and the two were re-elected to four terms of office together in 1983, 1985, 1987 and 1989.
She was redistricted to the 21st District following the results of the 1990 Census, and was elected to two terms there with running mate Monroe Jay Lustbader.
[7] That same year, Ogden was chief sponsor of a bill in the General Assembly that would give adoptees the opportunity to get access to their original birth certificates.
[8] As chair of the Governor's Council on New Jersey Outdoors in 1998, Ogden targeted raising $1 billion over the subsequent decade to be used to preserve 1 million acres (4,000 km2) of farmland and open space.