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ROGERS, William Nathaniel, a Representative from New Hampshire; born in Sanbornville, Carroll
County, N.H., January 10, 1892; attended the public schools, Brewster Free
Academy, Wolfeboro, N.H., and Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.; was graduated
from the law department of the University of Maine at Orono in 1916; was
admitted to the bar the same year and practiced in Sanbornville and Rochester,
N.H.; member of the State house of representatives in 1917, 1919, and 1921;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3,
1925); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth
Congress; resumed the practice of his profession in Concord, N.H.; moderator of
the town of Wakefield, N.H., 1928-1945; elected January 5, 1932, to fill the
vacancy in the Seventy-second Congress caused by the death of Fletcher Hale;
reelected to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses and served from
January 5, 1932, to January 3, 1937; was not a candidate for renomination, but
was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1936;
resumed the practice of law in Concord, N.H., until 1943, when he moved to
Sanbornville, N.H., and continued practice until his death in Wolfeboro, N.H.,
September 25, 1945; interment in Lovell Lake Cemetery, Sanbornville, N.H.
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