John H. Rogers

John H. Rogers

John Henry Rogers (born October 9, 1845 in Roxobel , Bertie County , North Carolina , †  April 16, 1911 in Little Rock , Arkansas ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the third and from 1885 to 1891 the fourth constituency of the state of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1852, John Rogers and his parents came to Mississippi State , where the family settled near Madison Station . There John attended public schools. Despite his youth, Rogers took off in 1862 as a soldier of the Confederacy on the civil war in part. By the end of the war he had reached the rank of first lieutenant . After the war, Rogers continued his education at Center College in Danville ( Kentucky ) continue. He then studied law at the University of Mississippi at Oxford until 1868 . After his admission to the bar in the same year, he began to work in this profession in Canton .

In 1869 Rogers moved to Fort Smith , Arkansas, where he also practiced as a lawyer. Between 1877 and 1882 he was a district judge there. He became a member of the Democratic Party , as its candidate in 1882 in the third district of Arkansas to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . There he replaced Jordan E. Cravens on March 4, 1883 . Rogers represented this district for only one legislative period until March 3, 1885; then Thomas Chipman McRae took over this seat. But John Rogers ran successfully in the elections of 1884 in the fourth district. After some re-elections he was able to represent this area between March 4, 1885 and March 3, 1891 as the successor to Samuel W. Peel in Congress . From 1887 to 1889 he was chairman of the Committee on Mileage . In the run-up to the elections in 1890, Rogers declined to run again.

After his tenure in Congress was over, he returned to Fort Smith as an attorney. In 1892, he was both a delegate to the Democratic convention of Arkansas and for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , on the former president Grover Cleveland was again nominated for the highest office in the United States. Cleveland later appointed President-elect Cleveland Rogers as a judge in the federal district court for the western part of the state of Arkansas. He held this office from 1896 until his death in 1911.

Web links

• John H. Rogers in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• John H. Rogers in the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges

• John H. Rogers in the database of Find a Grave (English)