Sion Hart Rogers

Sion Hart Rogers (born September 30, 1825 in Raleigh , North Carolina , †  August 14, 1874 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1853 and 1855 and again from 1871 and 1873 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Sion Rogers attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1846 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1848, he began to work in Raleigh in this profession. Politically, Rogers joined the Whig Party . In the congressional election of 1852 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded James Morehead on March 4, 1853 . Since he refused to run again in 1854, he was initially only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1855 . This was determined by the events and discussions leading up to the civil war .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Rogers became a prosecutor in the Raleigh Judicial District. During the Civil War he served in the Confederation Army until 1863 , where he became a colonel. Between 1863 and 1866 he served as Attorney General for the State of North Carolina. After the Whigs disbanded in the 1850s, Rogers became a member of the Democratic Party . In 1868 he ran unsuccessfully to return to Congress.

In the elections of 1870 Rogers was elected again as a Democrat in the fourth district of his state in the US House of Representatives, where he replaced John Manning on March 4, 1871 . In 1872 he was defeated by Republican William Alexander Smith . Sion Rogers died on August 14, 1874 in his hometown of Raleigh, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Sion Hart Rogers in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Sion hard Rogers in the database of Find a Grave (English)