Background
Rogers, John Jacob was born on August 18, 1881 in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Jacob and Mary Howard (Carney) Rogers.
United States representative lawyer politician
Rogers, John Jacob was born on August 18, 1881 in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Jacob and Mary Howard (Carney) Rogers.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1904, Master of Arts, 1905, Bachelor of Laws, 1907.
He practiced law in Lowell, starting in 1908. During the First World War, Rogers enlisted on September 12, 1918, as a private 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 died in Washington, District of Columbia on March 28, 1925, and was interred at Lowell Cemetery in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Rogers was a member of the Lowell city government in 1911, school commissioner in 1912, and was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, until his death.
Married Edith Frances Nourse, October 2, 1907.