Will Rogers (Oklahoma politician)

Will Rogers (* December 12 1898 in Bessie, Washita County, Oklahoma; † 3 August 1983 in Falls Church, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1943 he represented the ninth constituency of the State of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Will Rogers was born on a farm near Bessie in the former Oklahoma Territory. He attended the common schools and the South Western Teachers College in Weatherford. Subsequently, he studied until 1926 at the Central Teachers College in Edmond and to 1930 at the University of Oklahoma. Rogers began early on a career in the teaching profession. Already in the years 1917 to 1919 he was a teacher in Bessie. Between 1919 and 1923 he taught in Bartlesville. From 1923 to 1932 he was inspector in various school districts of Oklahoma.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. As the candidate he was in 1932 in the newly created ninth election district in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he was able to complete a total of five legislative sessions after four elections between 4 March 1933 and January 3, 1943. In Congress, he was temporarily Chairman of the Indian Committee. 1942, the ninth constituency was dissolved. Rogers was thus the only MP who could represent this district in Congress. He then tried, unsuccessfully, to be nominated in other constituencies.

1943 Will Rogers ran unsuccessfully for the post of executive officials ( Secretary of State ) of Oklahoma. Between 1943 and 1945 he worked for the Ministry of Interior and from 1946 to 1968 in various positions for the Department of Agriculture in Washington. In 1968 he went into retirement. Thereafter, however, he was still active in the real estate industry. Will Rogers was living in McLean ( Virginia). He died in August 1983 in Falls Church.