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ROGERS, Paul Grant, (son of Dwight L. Rogers),
a Representative from Florida; born in Ocilla, Irwin County, Ga.,
June 4, 1921; B.A., University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.,1942; United
States Army, 1942-1946; attended George Washington University School of Law,
Washington, D.C.; J.D., University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., 1948; lawyer,
private practice; member, board of directors, Merck & Co. and Mutual Life
Insurance Co. of New York; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth Congress
by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father,
United States Representative Dwight L. Rogers, and reelected to the eleven
succeeding Congresses (January 4, 1955-January 3, 1979); was not a candidate
for reelection to the Ninety-sixth Congress in 1978; died on October 13, 2008,
in Washington, D.C.
BibliographyRalph Nader Congress Project.
Citizens Look at Congress: Paul G. Rogers, Democratic Representative
from Florida. Washington, D. C.: Grossman Publishers,
1972.
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