Dwight L. Rogers

Dwight L. Rogers

Dwight Laing Rogers (born August 17, 1886 in Reidsville , Georgia , †  December 1, 1954 in Fort Lauderdale , Florida ) was an American politician . Between 1945 and 1954 he represented the state of Florida in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Dwight Rogers attended his home public schools and the Locust Grove Institute . He then studied until 1909 at the University of Georgia in Athens . After studying law at Mercer University in Macon and being admitted to the bar in 1910, he began working in his new profession in Ocilla . In 1925 he moved his law firm and residence to Fort Lauderdale. There he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

Between 1930 and 1938 Rogers was a member of the Florida House of Representatives , of which he was President in 1933. In the 1944 congressional elections , he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Florida , where he succeeded Robert A. Green on January 3, 1945 . After four re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death . During this time the end of the Second World War , the founding of the UN , the beginning of the Cold War and the Korean War fell . In 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was passed in Congress.

Dwight Rogers was also confirmed in the 1954 congressional election . He was unable to take up the new legislative period that began on January 3, 1955, because he died on December 1, 1954. His mandate fell to his son Paul , who then represented the sixth district of Florida until 1967.

Web links

• Dwight L. Rogers in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Dwight L. Rogers in the database of Find a Grave (English)