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John Rankin Rogers was born at Brunswick, Maine, United States. His mother was a descendant of John Greene who settled in Rhode Island in 1637.
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druggist educator farmer governor
John Rankin Rogers was born at Brunswick, Maine, United States. His mother was a descendant of John Greene who settled in Rhode Island in 1637.
At an early age John Rankin went to Boston to learn the druggist's trade
from 1856 to 1861 he practised druggist's trade in Mississippi, managing stores at Jackson and Terry. Opposed to the secession movement, he moved to Cumberland County, Ill. , where he taught school and farmed until 1870. He then returned to Maine and for about five years was again engaged in the drug business. Removing to Kansas in 1876, he devoted himself to agriculture and helped organize the Farmer's Alliance. As a Greenback Republican he secured some local offices in Harvey County. His career as a publicist began in 1887 when he established and edited the Kansas Commoner. In 1890 Rogers went to the state of Washington and established himself at Puyallup, Pierce County, where he dealt in real estate and conducted a mercantile business. His first and outstanding literary work, The Irrepressible Conflict; or, An American System of Money (1892), attracted wide attention. The following year he published a novel, The Graftons; or Looking Forward, reprinted in 1898 as Looking Forward. It had appeared originally in the Kansas Commoner in 1889 and is a typical newspaper serial for a populist organ. In 1894 he was elected to the lower house of the legislature and in the session of 1895 he introduced bills to redistribute the burden of taxation so as to relieve the small property holder, to improve conditions for workers in coal mines, and to broaden the scope of public education. The last-named measure, the only one of the three which passed, was the unique "Barefoot Schoolboy Law, " which provided a maximum state tax of four mills to subsidize the county schools to the extent of at least six dollars for each child of school age. A coalition of Populists, Silver Republicans, and Democrats elected him governor in 1896. His executive program, decidedly Populist, emphasized restraint in expenditures and more centralized administration for the various state institutions. After a hard struggle he defeated the plan to construct a state capitol building at a cost of $822, 951 and negotiated instead the purchase of the Thurston County court house. Additional tax levies on the basis of his "Barefoot School Boy" principles and the furnishing of school textbooks by the state, free or at cost, were among his urgent recommendations to the legislature. The latter scheme, adopted in part, was not successful. When a pernicious lobby fought his measures for the control of railroads and rates he retaliated by calling public attention to its operations. Himself an indefatigable party worker, he was suspicious of orthodox machine politics. Amounting almost to an obsession was his belief in the sanctity of public opinion; no measures, even those in the interest of salutary reforms, would endure, he believed, without a decided mandate from a substantial majority of the people. That the people appreciated this confidence was revealed in the state elections of 1900, when he was reflected governor by a substantial vote though all the rest of the offices went to orthodox Republicans.
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As a Greenback Republican he secured some local offices in Harvey County.
He was in some respects a striking figure, slender, over six feet tall, with bold features set off by a large drooping mustache. His deep voice carried well; his speeches, marked by wide reading and an especial acquaintance with history, were forceful but a little heavy and tedious.
On March 17, 1861, he married Sarah L. Greene, of Illinois, by whom he had three sons and two daughters. He died at Olympia from an attack of lobar pneumonia.
