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Rogers, John Henry

soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 1845, in Bertie county, N. C. He served in the confederate army from March, 1862, to the close of the war, rising to the rank of first lieutenant. In 1877 he was elected circuit judge, and was re-elected in 1878.

He resigned in 1882, and was elected a representative from Arkansas to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses as a democrat. In 1896 he was appointed United States district judge for the western district of Arkansas.

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