Rogers, Asa
soldier, civil engineer, legislator, politician, was born Aug. 20, 1836, in Oakham, Va. He was a civil engineer up to April, 1861, when he entered the confederate service as a lieutenant in the first Virginia cavalry; was promoted to captain after the battles around Richmond in 1862; and served till the surrender at Appomattox. He then again took up engineering, and was elected railroad commissioner in 1880. In 1884 he was elected to the Virginia state senate; and in 1885 was appointed collector of internal revenue by President Arthur. For seventeen years he has been secretary of the republican state committee of Virginia.