Tennie Beatrice Thomas Rogers (August 1, 1927 – January 22, 2009) was a perennial candidate

Perennial candidate

A perennial candidate is one who frequently runs for public office with a record of success that is infrequent, if existent at all. Perennial candidates are often either members of minority political parties or have political opinions that are not mainstream. They may run without any serious hope...

 for national office, having run in Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 primaries for United States President three times, and one time for United States Congress

United States Congress

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. In 1992 she was on more state ballots than any previous female Republican candidate for President. She was also the author of Standing Up: Rogers For U.S. President, an autobiography and chronicle of her first two attempts at the Presidency and her intention for the 2000 election.http://www.politics1.com/othergop2k.htm She is the mother of Evelyn L. Rogers, another perennial candidate. She died on January 22, 2009.

Congressional campaigns

In 2000 she ran for the Republican nomination for Oklahoma's 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, winning 266 votes, coming in 6th of seven candidates, losing to Andy Ewing. Ewing lost to Brad Carson

Brad Carson

Brad Rogers Carson is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Oklahoma. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2005.-Background:...

 in the general election.

In 2002 she ran for the Republican nomination for Oklahoma's 4th Congressional District (map) winning 648 votes, coming in 4th of six candidates, losing to Tom Cole

Tom Cole

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 who won with 21,789 votes and then went on to win the general election.

Meanwhile, her daughter Evelyn Rogers,http://www.evelyn-rogers.org/ a librarian at Oral Roberts University

Oral Roberts University

Oral Roberts University , based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the United States, is an interdenominational, Charismatic Christian, comprehensive university with an enrollment of about 3,790 students from 49 U.S. states along with a significant number of international students from 70 countries...

 ran for the 3rd Congressional District in 1996, and the 1st Congressional District in 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2004.http://www.kjrh.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=4ecb8240-b2e8-440a-a0d3-b16f96ffea01&rss=784 http://www.odl.state.ok.us/almanac/2005/13-electn.pdf

1992

In 1992 she was on nine State Republican primary ballots, winning 7,677 votes. She was the first female Republican candidate to have been on so many ballots, exceeding former Senator Margaret Chase Smith

Margaret Chase Smith

Margaret Chase Smith was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in Maine history. She was the first woman to be elected to both the U.S. House and the Senate, and the first woman from Maine to serve in either. She was also the first woman to have her name...

  and is one of only approximately ten women to have ever been a Republican candidate for President.

1996

In 1996, she was on the Republican primary ballot in New Hampshire

New Hampshire

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 and Mississippi

Mississippi

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, earning just 12 votes in the former http://www.ballot-access.org/1996/0306.html and 35 in the latter.http://www.ballot-access.org/1996/0403.html

Following this election, she wrote a book, Standing Up: Rogers For U.S. President, that would serve as both autobiography and campaign tool for her anticipated third attempt at the Presidency.

2000

In 2000 she once again ran, but this time failed to get on any ballots for President, faring better in her run for Congress as mentioned above.