Background
Nelson, Roger was born in 1759 in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. Son of Doctor Arthur and Lucy (Waters) Nelson.
United States representative lawyer politician
Nelson, Roger was born in 1759 in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. Son of Doctor Arthur and Lucy (Waters) Nelson.
He completed preparatory studies, and attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. After the War, Nelson studied law, was admitted to the bar about 1785, and practiced in Taneytown and Frederick.
He served in the militia during the American Revolutionary War, and was wounded at the Battle of Camden. He also served in the Maryland Senate from November 1803 to November 1804. Nelson was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Daniel Hiester, and was reelected to the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Congresses, serving from November 6, 1804, until his resignation on May 14, 1810.
He was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1804 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Samuel Chase, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
He was elected associate justice of the fifth (later sixth) judicial circuit of Maryland in 1810. He died in Frederick, and is interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Roger Nelson was the father of John Nelson, another Maryland congressman.
Member Maryland. House of Delegates, 1795, 1801, 02. Member United States House of Representatives from Maryland., 8th-11th congresses, November 6, 1804-May 14, 1810.
Married Mary Brooke Sim, 1787. Married second, Eliza Harrison, February 2, 1797.