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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsROGERS, Edith Nourse
(1881—1960)
ROGERS, Edith Nourse, (wife of John Jacob Rogers), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Saco, York County, Maine, March 19, 1881; graduated from the Rogers Hall School, Lowell, Mass.; graduated from Madame Julien’s School, Paris, France; volunteered, American Red Cross, 1917-1922; Presidential inspector of veterans’ hospitals, 1922-1923; president, board of trustees, Rogers Hall School, Lowell, Mass.; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, United States Representative John Jacob Rogers; reelected to the Seventieth and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (June 30, 1925-September 10, 1960); chair, Committee on Veterans’ Affairs (Eightieth and Eighty-third Congresses); died on September 10, 1960, in Boston, Mass.; interment in Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Mass.
“Edith Nourse Rogers” in Women in Congress, 1917-1990.
Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991.
United States. 86th Cong., 2d sess., 1960. Memorial services held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States, together with remarks presented in eulogy of Edith Nourse Rogers, late a Representative from Massachusetts
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1961.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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