Hezekiah Gold Rogers (February 22, 1811 – March 19, 1882) was the United States chargé d'affaires in Sardinia from 1840 to 1841. Rogers, the eldest child of the Hon. Edward Rogers, member of the

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from New York, and of Sally Maria (Gold) Rogers, was born in

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, N. Y., February 22, 1811. He graduated from

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in 1831. He studied law and began practice in

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, Pa, and in 1837 was one of the delegates from Alleghany County to the convention for the revision of the

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. In June, 1840, he was appointed chargé d'affaires to the

Kingdom of Sardinia The Kingdom of Sardinia,The name of the state was originally Latin: , or when the kingdom was still considered to include Corsica. In Italian it is , in French , in Sardinian , and in Piedmontese . also referred to as the Kingdom of Savoy-S ...

by President

Martin Van Buren Martin Van Buren ( ; nl, Maarten van Buren; ; December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the eighth president of the United States from 1837 to 1841. A primary founder of the Democratic Party (Uni ...

, but showing symptoms of mental derangement he was superseded in November, 1841, and returned to his father's house. During his later life he was a wanderer. He died in the county alms-house in Lancaster, Pa, March 19, 1882, in his 72d year. He was unmarried.

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