William Findlay Rogers

William Findlay Rogers

William Findlay Rogers (March 1, 1820 - December 16, 1899) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York.

William Findlay Rogers (son of Thomas Jones Rogers) was born in Forks Township, Pennsylvania, near the borough of Easton, Pennsylvania. He moved with his parents to Philadelphia, where he attended the common schools. He returned to Easton and entered a printing office in 1832. He returned to Philadelphia in 1834 and continued working at his trade. He established a paper at Honesdale, Pennsylvania, in 1840. He moved to Buffalo, New York, in 1846 and was foreman in the office of the "Buffalo Daily Courier". He established and managed the "Buffalo Republic" in 1850. He served as a member of Company D of the Buffalo City Guard, in 1846, and served in the American Civil War as colonel of the Twenty-first Regiment, New York Volunteers. He mustered out in 1863. He was comptroller of the city of Buffalo in 1867 and mayor in 1869. He served as secretary and treasurer of the park commissioners in 1871. He was nominated for the New York State Senate in 1878, but declined.

Rogers was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1884. He served as the superintendent of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home at Bath, New York, from 1887 to 1897. He died in Buffalo in 1899. Interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery.

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