Harry L. Hogan, a retired legislative analyst at the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and longtime resident of Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood, died on July 11 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. He was 86. The cause of death was congestive heart failure.

Born in Sheffield, Alabama, in 1931, the son of Charles Howard and Beulah (Parks) Hogan, Mr. Hogan was a graduate of the Boys’ Latin School of Maryland and the University of Georgia (1954), earning an AB in philosophy and economics at the latter. At Georgia, he was a member of Kappa Alpha. After several years with an insurance firm in New York City, he did graduate study in philosophy at Emory University. In 1961, he began a 32-year career with the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. A legislative analyst, at his retirement in 1993, he held the title “Specialist in Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice, and Public Safety.” In the later years of his service, he was concerned principally with federal policy regarding the regulation of firearms and of narcotics and other dangerous drugs. He worked frequently with the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, Ways and Means, House Foreign Affairs, and House Select on Narcotics, among others. From 1987 to 1992, he acted as head of the Intergovernmental Relations section of the Government and General Research Division of CRS. Mr. Hogan served for a number of years as Senior Warden of Christ the King Anglican Church, in Georgetown. He was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars in the District of Columbia.

Harry was a Southern gentleman, considerate and respectful of all he met. His intellectual interests covered a wide range spanning public policy, foreign affairs, culture, theology, philosophy, and literature. Active his entire life, he skied regularly and hiked almost daily — and always quick to identify birds and flowers native to the area. With an exceptional gift for friendship, he kept in touch with myriad friends made throughout his life, from childhood to retirement. Patriotic and traditional, he was well traveled, a splendid conversationalist with a keen sense of humor, sometimes moderately fortified by bourbon, scotch or wine. He loved listening to classical music, being particularly fond of the Dumbarton Concert series. He was deeply interested in genealogical research, making his own important contributions. (He shared a 17th century ancestor, Richard Borden, with, among others, Sir Winston Churchill and Sir Robert Laird Borden, a Canadian prime minister.) While personally thrifty, he was generous with friends and organizations he felt effective in improving society. Among the many such organizations, contributions in Harry’s memory may be made to Boys’ Latin School (Baltimore, MD), Samaritan’s Purse (Boone, NC), Clear Creek Abbey (Hulbert, OK), Anglican Church of Christ the King (Washington, DC) and the General Society of Colonial Wars.

A memorial stone with his remains is at Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown on the Azalea path near the chapel. His estate helped initiate the Council for the Improvement of Collegiate Education and Management (CICEM-USA.org) to encourage gift subscriptions for college students to six publication Harry was a longtime subscriber (Modern Age, First Things, Humanitas, Claremont Review, Chronicles of Culture and The American Conservative).