Ralph Bogan


Ralph A.L. Bogan, Jr. was a businessman who co-owned the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a partner in the group that purchased the team in 1962.
He also worked for the Greyhound Bus company – where his father, Ralph Bogan, Sr., was a high-ranking executive – was a private equity investor, and CEO of National Security Bank in Chicago.,/Treasurer of the One-Hundred Club of Chicago Police Department 1973-2013.

Personal life

Ralph Alcott Lester Bogan Jr. was born in Hibbing Minnesota. He attended Evanston Township High School, Choate [Rosemary Hall] and Lake Forest Academy, then Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania. He served on a destroyer in the Navy during World War II. He died in Lincoln [Park, Chicago].