Background
Rogers, Walter Stowell was born on October 25, 1877 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Charles A. and Ella (Stowell) Rogers.
Rogers, Walter Stowell was born on October 25, 1877 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Charles A. and Ella (Stowell) Rogers.
Ph. B., University of Chicago, 1901. Bachelor of Laws, Chicago Kent College Law, 1905.
Assistant to vice president, later assistant to president Crane Company, Chicago, 1903-1914. Public Washington Herald, 1919-1920. Director Division Foreign Cable News Service, Committee on Public Information, 1917-1919.
Adviser American Delegation, Peace Conference, Paris, 1919.
Delegate to International Conference on Electrical Communications, 1920-1922.
Technical adviser on electrical communications American Delegation to Conference on Limitation of Armament, 1921-1922. Lecturer, Army War College, 1923, 24, 26, Post Graduate School United States Naval Academy, 1926.
Director Institute Current World Affairs 1926-1959, director emeritus, since 1959.
Member Delta Tau Delta. Lectured on electrical communications, University of Chicago, summers, 1924-1925. Clubs: Cosmos (Washington).
Married Edith Carey, 1903. Children: Lora Elizabeth, Ruth Louise, Jane Cornelia.