Background
He was born in San Francisco, California.
United States representative politician
He was born in San Francisco, California.
Rolph attended public schools and graduated from Humboldt Evening High School.
In 1912, he founded a building materials sales agency, which he headed until his death. Rolph was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses (January 3, 1941 - January 3, 1945). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress.
He returned to his building material sales agency and died in San Francisco in 1956.
He was buried in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo County, California.