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John Rankin Rogers (September 4, 1838 – December 26, 1901) was an American politician who served as the third governor of Washington from 1897 to 1901. Elected as a member of the People's Party before switching his affiliation to the
Washington State University, Pullman, WA. that followed a Populist and Arcadian Agrarian spirit. Growing up in New England when Jeffersonian democracy, Jeffersonian ideals were talked about frequently was a strong influence on his political future.
Two high schools in the state are named for Rogers, on either side of the Cascade Mountains. John R. Rogers High School in Spokane, Washington, Spokane in Eastern Washington opened in 1932 and Governor John R. Rogers High School in Puyallup, Washington, Puyallup opened in 1968.
Rogers Field (Washington State), Rogers Field, the College football, football and track stadium at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, Pullman, was named for him in 1902. A fire, a suspected arson, significantly damaged the wooden stadium in April 1970.
Spokesman-Review
' - Fast blaze ruins Pullman stadium - 1970-04-06 - p.1 The stadium was reconstructed in 1972 and its name changed to Martin Stadium, after Clarence D. Martin, the eleventh governor of Washington (ironically, a graduate of the University of Washington). The present-day Rogers Field at WSU refers to the practice and intramural fields directly west of the stadium.
In JSTOR
* R. Douglas Hurt, "John R. Rogers: The Union Labor Party, Georgism, and Agrarian Reform." ''Journal of the West,'' vol. 16 (January 1977), pp. 10–15. * Edmond S. Meany
''Governors of Washington: Territorial and State.''
Seattle: University of Washington, 1915.
Examination of the Barefoot Schoolboy Act
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, Rogers was elected to two consecutive terms in 1896 and 1900, but died before completing his fifth year in office.
Biography
Early years
John R. Rogers was born September 4, 1838, inBrunswick, Maine
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, the son of Margaret Anne (Green) and John Rogers.
Rogers went to Boston
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as a youth and apprenticed as a druggist
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, then moved south to Mississippi
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in 1856 to manage a drug store for four years in Jackson
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. He moved north to Illinois
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in 1860, where he farmed and worked as a school teacher and druggist. He married Sarah Greene in 1861 and together they had five children.
In 1876 the family relocated to Kansas
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to farm and Rogers was later an editor of the ''Kansas Commoner'' for several years in Wichita, Kansas, Wichita, and was an organizer within the Farmers' Alliance. Rogers moved to Washington in 1890 and settled in Puyallup, Washington, Puyallup, where he operated a drug store.
Political career
Rogers was elected to the Washington House of Representatives in 1895 as a Populist, and governor the following year. As governor he supported the "Barefoot Schoolboy Act" which he had first sponsored while in the state legislature. The Act provided a mechanism of state funding to equalize support for free public education between counties which had a large tax base and those without. Rogers was a conditional supporter of the Single Tax Movement associated with Henry George.Rogers, John Rankin. Homes for the Homeless. An Argument in Favor of a Non-taxable Homestead. Seattle: Allen Printing, 1895. He switched his affiliation to the Democratic Party in 1900 (he was the first Democrat to serve as governor; Ernest Lister would be the first politician from the state to be elected outright as a Democrat in 1913). John R. Rogers authored many books, pamphlets and articlesJohn Rankin Rogers Papers, 1814-1926,"Washington State University, Pullman, WA. that followed a Populist and Arcadian Agrarian spirit. Growing up in New England when Jeffersonian democracy, Jeffersonian ideals were talked about frequently was a strong influence on his political future.
Death and legacy
Rogers served as governor from January 11, 1897, until his death from lobar pneumonia on December 26, 1901, at age 63. Rogers is buried in the Woodbine Cemetery in Puyallup.
Two high schools in the state are named for Rogers, on either side of the Cascade Mountains. John R. Rogers High School in Spokane, Washington, Spokane in Eastern Washington opened in 1932 and Governor John R. Rogers High School in Puyallup, Washington, Puyallup opened in 1968.
Rogers Field (Washington State), Rogers Field, the College football, football and track stadium at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, Pullman, was named for him in 1902. A fire, a suspected arson, significantly damaged the wooden stadium in April 1970.Spokesman-Review
' - Fast blaze ruins Pullman stadium - 1970-04-06 - p.1 The stadium was reconstructed in 1972 and its name changed to Martin Stadium, after Clarence D. Martin, the eleventh governor of Washington (ironically, a graduate of the University of Washington). The present-day Rogers Field at WSU refers to the practice and intramural fields directly west of the stadium.
Footnotes
Further reading
* David B. Griffiths, "Far-Western Populist Thought: A Comparative Study of John R. Rogers and Davis H. Waite," ''Pacific Northwest Quarterly,'' vol. 60, no. 4 (Oct. 1969), pp. 183–192In JSTOR
* R. Douglas Hurt, "John R. Rogers: The Union Labor Party, Georgism, and Agrarian Reform." ''Journal of the West,'' vol. 16 (January 1977), pp. 10–15. * Edmond S. Meany
''Governors of Washington: Territorial and State.''
Seattle: University of Washington, 1915.
External links
Examination of the Barefoot Schoolboy Act
at Washington Secretary of State website , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Rogers, John 1838 births 1901 deaths People from Brunswick, Maine Politicians from Puyallup, Washington American Presbyterians Democratic Party governors of Washington (state) Democratic Party members of the Washington House of Representatives People's Party state governors of the United States Washington (state) Populists Writers from Brunswick, Maine Writers from Washington (state) Deaths from pneumonia in Washington (state) 19th-century American politicians