{{Short description|Irish-American lawyer and politician (1844–1897)}} '''Patrick J. Rogers''' (March 4, 1844 – June 21, 1897) was an Irish-American lawyer and politician from New York.
== Life == Rogers was born on March 4, 1844, in Castlebar, Ireland. His father, also Patrick J. Rogers, was a Castlebar businessman, an active supporter of Daniel O'Connell, and a prominent member of Conciliation Hall from its establishment to its dissolution.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/eveningjournalal1883slsn/page/146/mode/1up?view=theater |title=Evening Journal Almanac, 1883 |year=1883 |pages=146 |language=en |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
In 1861, Rogers went to America and settled in Seneca Falls, New York.<ref name=":1" /> In September 1864, during the American Civil War, he enlisted and was mustered into Company I, 15th New York Engineer Regiment, as a private. In January 1865, he was promoted to corporal. In June 1865, he was mustered out with his company.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iqBNAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Rogers,%20Patrick%20J.%22 |title=Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York for the Year 1898: Registers of the First, Fifteenth and Fiftieth Engineers, and First Battalion of Sharpshooters |publisher=Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. |year=1899 |series=16 |pages=703 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref> In June 1872, he organized Company K, 49th Regiment, National Guard of the State of New York, and was elected captain of the company. He initially worked as a mechanic, but in 1870 he was admitted to the bar and began working as a lawyer.<ref name=":0" /> He studied law under Gilbert Wilcoxen.<ref name=":2" /> A Democrat, he served as Treasurer of Seneca Falls in 1871, District Attorney of Seneca County from 1872 to 1874 and from 1878 to 1880, and Justice of the Peace in 1881. In 1882, he was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Democrat, representing Seneca County. He served in the Assembly in 1883.<ref name=":0" />
In October 1886, during the first Grover Cleveland administration, Assistant Secretary of the Interior Hawkins announced Roger's appointment to the Board of Pension Appeals.<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 October 1886 |title=Pension Appeals Board |volume=69 |page=1 |work=The Evening Star |issue=10430 |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1886-10-19/ed-1/seq-1/ |via=Chronicling America}}</ref> He was reappointed to the Board by the Secretary of the Interior in June 1887.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 June 1887 |title=THE BOARD OF PENSION APPEALS |volume=70 |page=3 |work=The Evening Star |issue=10645 |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1887-06-29/ed-1/seq-3/ |via=Chronicling America}}</ref> He left the Board in July 1888, when Congress failed to pass a legislative appropriation bill for the fiscal year before his term expired. He was instead appointed a law clerk in the Assistant Attorney-General's Office for the Interior Department.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2 July 1888 |title=Dropped from the Rolls |volume=73 |page=5 |work=The Evening Star |issue=10958 |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1888-07-02/ed-1/seq-5/ |via=Chronicling America}}</ref> During Benjamin Harrison's presidency, he worked for a leading law firm in Washington, D.C.<ref name=":1" /> In October 1893, President Cleveland reappointed him to the Commission of Pension Appeals.<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 October 1893 |title=Hon. Patrick J. Rogers |volume=VII |page=1 |work=The Farmer Review |issue=11 |location=Farmer, Seneca County, N.Y. |url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=far18931007-01.1.1&srpos=14&e=--1884---1897--en-20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-%22Patrick+J.+Rogers%22-------Seneca-- |via=NYS Historic Newspapers}}</ref> In November 1896, he resigned from his position due to poor health. Secretary David R. Francis had him transferred to the pension department, assigned a special agent for Southern California, and sent to Los Angeles, California.<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 November 1896 |title=Hon. Patrick J. Rogers |volume=XVII |page=3 |work=Seneca County News |issue=934 |location=Waterloo, N.Y. |url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=secn18961117-01.1.3&srpos=19&e=--1884---1897--en-20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-%22Patrick+J.+Rogers%22-------Seneca-- |via=NYS Historic Newspapers}}</ref>
Rogers was first married to a daughter of Jeremiah Cronin, with whom he had a daughter. He later married Kate Hopkins, with whom he had two daughters and a son.<ref name=":1" />
Rogers died at his home in Washington, D.C. from consumption on June 21, 1897.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=30 June 1897 |title=SENECA FALLS |volume=71 |page=3 |work=Waterloo Observer |issue=3710 |location=Waterloo, N.Y. |url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=wto18970630-01.1.3&srpos=9&e=21-06-1897-03-07-1897-189-en-20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-Rogers----1897---Seneca-- |via=NYS Historic Newspapers}}</ref> He was buried in Seneca Falls.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=29 June 1897 |title=Capt. Patrick J. Rogers |volume=XVIII |page=3 |work=Seneca County News |issue=966 |location=Waterloo, N.Y. |url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=secn18970629-01.1.3&srpos=7&e=21-06-1897-03-07-1897-189-en-20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-Rogers----1897---Seneca-- |via=NYS Historic Newspapers}}</ref>
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== External links == * ''[https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rogers7.html#964.49.50 The Political Graveyard]'' {{s-start}}{{s-par|us-ny-hs}} {{succession box | title = New York State Assembly <br>Seneca County | years = 1883 | before = Albert M. Patterson | after = George W. Jones }} {{s-end}}
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