Anthony Astley Cooper Rogers (February 14, 1821 – July 27, 1899) was an American
politician
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. He served one term in the
House of Representative from
Arkansas
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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
Arkansas
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in 1854. An opponent of
Secession
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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
38th United States Congress
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, but was not allowed to take his seat, his State not having been readmitted. In 1864, he moved to
Chicago
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, Illinois, and engaged in the
real estate
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business. He returned to Arkansas in 1868.
Congress
Rogers was elected as a
Democrat
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Politics
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*A member of a Democratic Party:
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to the
41st Congress
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, March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1871. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870 to the
42nd Congress
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. He was
postmaster
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at
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
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, from January 7, 1881, to July 24, 1885, and again engaged in mercantile pursuits.
Death
In 1888, he moved to
Los Angeles
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, where he died the following year at the age of 78. He is interred in
Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery
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It was founded as Rosedale Cemetery in 1884, when Los Angeles had a population of approximately 28,000, ...
.
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1821 births
1899 deaths
Businesspeople from Tennessee
American real estate businesspeople
Arkansas postmasters
People from Clarksville, Tennessee
Politicians from Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas
Burials at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery
Southern Unionists in the American Civil War
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American businesspeople