William Findlay Rogers

William Findlay Rogers (born March 1, 1820 in Easton , Pennsylvania , †  December 16, 1899 in Buffalo , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of New York in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Rogers was the son of Congressman Thomas Jones Rogers (1781-1832). He attended public schools in Philadelphia , where he had moved with his family as a child. In 1832 he returned to Easton for two years, where he worked in the printing trade. From 1834 he continued this activity in Philadelphia. In 1840 he founded a newspaper in Honesdale . He later moved to Buffalo, New York State, where he worked for the Buffalo Daily Courier newspaper . In 1850 he founded his own newspaper, the Buffalo Republic . In 1846 he was also a member of the Buffalo Municipal Militia. Between 1861 and 1863 he served as a colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War . Politically, Rogers joined the Democratic Party . In 1867 he was Comptroller with the Buffalo City Council; from 1868 to 1869 he was mayor there. In 1871 he was treasurer and secretary of the Buffalo City Parks Department. He turned down a candidacy for the New York Senate offered to him in 1878 .

In the 1882 congressional election , Rogers was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 32nd  electoral district of New York , where he succeeded Jonathan Scoville on March 4, 1883 . Since he renounced another candidacy in 1884, he could only complete one term in Congress until March 3, 1885 . Between 1887 and 1897, William Rogers ran the Veterans 'and Sailors' Home in Bath . He died on December 16, 1899 in Buffalo, where he was also buried.

Web links

• William Findlay Rogers in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Chandler J. Wells	Mayor of Buffalo 1868–1869	Alexander Brush
Jonathan Scoville	United States House Representative for New York (32nd constituency) March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1885	John M. Farquhar