John Jacob Rogers

John Jacob Rogers (August 18, 1881 – March 28, 1925) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

John Jacob Rogers
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 5th district
In office
March 4, 1913 - March 28, 1925
Preceded byButler Ames
Succeeded byEdith Nourse Rogers
Personal details
BornAugust 18, 1881
Lowell, Massachusetts
DiedMarch 28, 1925(1925-03-28) (aged 43)
Washington, D.C.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse(s)Edith Nourse Rogers
ProfessionAttorney
Military service
Branch/serviceUnited States Army
Years of serviceSeptember 12, 1918 –
November 29, 1918
RankPrivate
CommandsTwenty-ninth Training Battery, Tenth Training Battalion, Field Artillery, Fourth Central Officers’ Training School
Battles/warsWorld War I

Life and career

Rogers was born in Lowell, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard University in 1904 and from Harvard Law School in 1907. He practiced law in Lowell, starting in 1908. Rogers was a member of the Lowell city government in 1911, school commissioner in 1912, and was 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, Rogers 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.

Rogers is remembered as "The father of the Foreign Service" due to his sponsorship of the 1924 Foreign Service Act, also known as the Rogers Act.[1]

Rogers died in Washington, D.C. of appendicitis[2] on March 28, 1925, and was interred at Lowell Cemetery in Lowell, Massachusetts.

His wife, Edith Nourse Rogers, succeeded him in Congress.

Edith Nourse Rogers
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gollark: Also, you could sort of gain extra senses of some possible value by mapping things like LIDAR output (AR glasses will probably have something like that for object recognition) and the local wireless environment onto the display.
gollark: Oh, and there's the obvious probably-leading-to-terrible-consequences thing of being able to conveniently see the social media profiles of anyone you meet.
gollark: Some uses: if you are going shopping in a real-world shop you could get reviews displayed on the items you look at; it could be a more convenient interface for navigation apps; you could have an instructional video open while learning to do something (which is already doable on a phone, yes, but then you have to either hold or or stand it up somewhere, which is somewhat less convenient), and with some extra design work it could interactively highlight the things you're using; you could implement a real-world adblocker if there's some way to dim/opacify/draw attention away from certain bits of the display.
gollark: There's nothing you can't *technically* do with a phone, but a more convenient interface does a lot.

See also
  • List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)

References
  1. "In the Beginning: The Rogers Act of 1924". American Foreign Service Association. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
  2. "From Lowell Doughboys: John Jacob Rogers". Lowell Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2017-03-05. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Butler Ames		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 5th congressional district
1913–1925		 Succeeded by
Edith Nourse Rogers
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