- Thomas Jones Rogers
Thomas Jones Rogers (
1781 -December 7 ,1832 ) was a member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Thomas J. Rogers (father of
William Findlay Rogers ) was born inWaterford ,Ireland . He immigrated to theUnited States in 1784 with his parents, who settled inEaston, Pennsylvania . He learned the printing trade and was editor and owner of the "Northampton Farmer " from 1805 to 1814.Rogers was elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Ross. He was reelected to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Congresses and served until April 20, 1824, when he resigned.
He served as a
trustee ofLafayette College from 1826 to 1832. He was a register and recorder of deeds forNorthampton County, Pennsylvania , from 1828 to 1830. He served as brigadier general in the State militia and as United States naval officer at the port ofPhiladelphia . He died in New York City in 1832. Interment in the graveyard of the New Market Street Baptist Church in Philadelphia. Reinterment in Glenwood Cemetery in 1851.ources
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