William Nathaniel Rogers (January 10, 1892 – September 25, 1945) was a

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from

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. Born in

Sanbornville, New Hampshire Sanbornville is a census-designated place (CDP) and the primary village in the town of Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. It had a population of 963 at the 2020 census. Geography Sanbornville is in the southwestern part of t ...

, Rogers attended the public schools, Brewster Free Academy in Wolfeboro, and

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. He was graduated from the law department of the

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at Orono in 1916. He was

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the same year and practiced in Sanbornville and

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. He served as member of the

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in 1917, 1919, and 1921. Rogers was elected as a

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to the Sixty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1923 – March 3, 1925). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress. He resumed the practice of his profession in

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. He was Moderator of the town of

Wakefield, New Hampshire Wakefield is a town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 5,201 at the 2020 census. The town includes the villages of Wakefield Corner (the original town center), East Wakefield, North Wakefield, Sanbornville, Union ...

from 1928 to 1945. Rogers was elected January 5, 1932, to fill the vacancy in the Seventy-second Congress caused by the death of

Fletcher Hale Fletcher Hale (January 22, 1883 – October 22, 1931) was an American politician and a United States representative from New Hampshire. Early life Born in Portland, Maine, on January 22, 1883, Hale was the son of Frederick Fletcher Hale and Ade ...

. He was reelected to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses and served from January 5, 1932, to January 3, 1937. He was not a candidate for renomination, but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the

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in 1936. He resumed the practice of law in

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until 1943, when he moved to Sanbornville, and continued practice until his death in Wolfeboro, September 25, 1945. He was interred in Lovell Lake Cemetery, Sanbornville.

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