William Findlay Rogers

William Findlay Rogers ( * March 1, 1820 in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, † December 16, 1899 in Buffalo, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Rogers was the son of Congressman Thomas Jones Rogers ( 1781-1832 ). He attended the public schools in Philadelphia, where he was drawn as a child with his family. In 1832 he returned for two years in Easton, where he worked in the printing trade. Since 1834, he continued this activity continued in Philadelphia. In 1840 he founded a newspaper in Honesdale. He later moved to Buffalo, New York, where he worked for the newspaper Buffalo Daily Courier. In 1850 he founded his own newspaper, the Buffalo Republic. In 1846 he was also a member of the urban militia of Buffalo. Between 1861 and 1863 he served during the Civil War as a colonel in the army of the Union. Politically, Rogers joined the Democratic Party. In 1867 he was Comptroller for the City Council of Buffalo; 1868 to 1869, he served there as mayor. In 1871, he was treasurer and secretary of the Park administration of the city Buffalo. A 1878 offered him a candidate for the Senate from New York, he refused.

In the congressional elections of 1882 Rogers was the 32nd electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jonathan Scoville on March 4, 1883. Since he resigned in 1884 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1885. Between 1887 and 1897 William Rogers, the Veterans Home Soldiers ' and Sailors ' Home launched in Bath. He died on December 16, 1899 in Buffalo, where he was also buried.