ISAAC K. OGIER
District Attorney

1851-1852

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Isaac K. Ogier

The County's second District Attorney was also a founder of the Rangers, a vigilante group.

Ogier, an attorney from Charleston, South Carolina, came to California as a Forty-Niner, then turned up in Los Angeles in 1851. He formed a law partnership with a Peruvian named Don Manuel Clemente Rojo, who also worked as a journalist for the Los Angels Star. Ogier served a year as District Attorney. In 1853, in the El Dorado Saloon, Ogier, Judge Agustin Olvera and other leading citizens organized the Rangers, a vigilante group that would grow to a hundred members and would lynch at least twenty-two people between 1854 and 1855. Ogier's reputation seemed to survive, however. From 1854 to 1861, Ogier served as federal District Judge for the Southern District.

Reprinted from FOR THE PEOPLE -- Inside the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office 1850-2000 by Michael Parrish. ISBN 1-883318-15-7