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John Jacob Rogers (August 18, 1881 – March 28, 1925) was an American politician and a member of the
United States House of Representatives
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from Massachusetts
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.
Life and career
Rogers was born inLowell, Massachusetts
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and graduated from Harvard University
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in 1904 and from Harvard Law School
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in 1907. He practiced law in Lowell, starting in 1908. Rogers was a member of the Lowell city government
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in 1911, school commissioner in 1912, and was elected as a Republican
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to the Sixty-third and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, until his death. During the First World War
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, Rogers enlisted on September 12, 1918, as a private
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with the Twenty-ninth Training Battery, Tenth Training Battalion, Field Artillery, Fourth Central Officers’ Training School, and served until honorably discharged on November 29, 1918.
Rogers is remembered as "The father of the Foreign Service" due to his sponsorship of the 1924 Foreign Service Act, also known as the Rogers Act
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.
Rogers died in Washington, D.C.
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of appendicitis
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on March 28, 1925, and was interred at Lowell Cemetery in Lowell, Massachusetts.
His wife, Edith Nourse Rogers
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, who would end up being the longest serving female of Congress for over 60 years, succeeded him in Congress.
See also
*List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)
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*List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–1949)
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References
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