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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsEdith Nourse ROGERS
(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.
Bibliography
”Edith Nourse Rogers” in Women in Congress,
1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of the Committee on
House Administration by the Office of History & Preservation,
U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing
Office, 2006.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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