Robert L. Rodgers

Robert Lewis Rodgers ( born June 2, 1875 in El Dorado, Butler County, Kansas, † May 9, 1960 in Erie, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1947 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Rodgers grew up on a farm in Mercer County in Pennsylvania. He attended the local district schools and the Fredonia Institute. Then he taught himself as a teacher. He also worked in agriculture. Rodgers also took as an infantryman in the Spanish-American War of 1898 in part. Since 1914 he lived in Erie, where he was active among others in the insurance industry and real estate business. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1938, Rodgers was the 29th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democratic Charles N. Crosby on January 3, 1939. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3rd, 1947 four legislative sessions. Since 1945, he represented the 28th district where his state. By 1941, the Congress, the last New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration were adopted, which Rodgers ' party faced a rather negative. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War and its aftermath was marked.

In 1946, Robert Rodgers was not nominated by his party for re-election. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he is no longer politically have appeared. He died on May 9, 1960 in Erie.