Anthony Astley Cooper Rogers (February 14, 1821 – July 27, 1899) was an American

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. He served one term in the House of Representative from

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from 1869 to 1871.

Biography

Born in

Clarksville, Tennessee Clarksville is the county seat of Montgomery County, Tennessee, United States. It is the fifth-largest city in the state behind Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, and Chattanooga. The city had a population of 166,722 as of the 2020 United States ce ...

, Rogers received a limited schooling. He engaged in mercantile pursuits. He moved to

in 1854. An opponent of

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, he was a candidate of supporters of the Union as a delegate to the State convention in 1861. He was arrested for his loyalty, imprisoned, and forced to give bond to answer the charge of "treason against the Confederate Government." Rogers was elected to the

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, but was not allowed to take his seat, his State not having been readmitted. In 1864, he moved to

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, Illinois, and engaged in the

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business. He returned to Arkansas in 1868.

Congress

Rogers was elected as a

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to the

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, March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1871. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870 to the

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. He was

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Pine Bluff, Arkansas Pine Bluff is the eleventh-largest city in the state of Arkansas and the county seat of Jefferson County. It is the principal city of the Pine Bluff Metropolitan Statistical Area and part of the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Pine Bluff Combin ...

, from January 7, 1881, to July 24, 1885, and again engaged in mercantile pursuits.

Death

In 1888, he moved to

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, where he died the following year at the age of 78. He is interred in

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References

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