John Jacob Rogers (August 18, 1881- March 28, 1925)

A Representative from Massachusetts; born in Lowell, Middlesex County, Mass., 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. alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1924. Congregationalist. Sponsor and longtime advocate of legislation to reform the U.S. foreign service, finally enacted in 1924.