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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsJohn Jacob ROGERS
(1881-1925)
ROGERS, John Jacob,
(husband of Edith Nourse Rogers), a Representative from
Massachusetts; born in Lowell, Middlesex County, Mass., August 18,
1881; attended the public schools, and was graduated from Harvard
University in 1904 and from the law department of that university
in 1907; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced
practice in Lowell in 1908; member of the Lowell city government in
1911; school commissioner in 1912; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-third and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from
March 4, 1913, until his death; during the First World War enlisted
on September 12, 1918, as a private with the Twenty-ninth Training
Battery, Tenth Training Battalion, Field Artillery, Fourth Central
Officers’ Training School, and served until honorably
discharged on November 29, 1918; died in Washington, D.C., March
28, 1925; interment in Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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