Background
Rogers, James was born on October 24, 1795 in in what is now Goshen Hill Township, Union County, South Carolina, United States.
United States representative politician
Rogers, James was born on October 24, 1795 in in what is now Goshen Hill Township, Union County, South Carolina, United States.
He completed preparatory studies and was graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia, South Carolina, in 1813. Later, he studied law and was admitted to the bar and began practice in Yorkville (now York), South Carolina.
Rogers held various local offices before he was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress. Years later, he was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1843).
He died in South Carolina, on December 21, 1873, and was buried in what was formerly called the Irish Graveyard at Kings Creek Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church near Newberry, South Carolina.
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