Thomas Jones Rogers was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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Thomas J. Rogers (father of William Findlay Rogers

William Findlay Rogers

William Findlay Rogers was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York.Rogers is probably best remembered today as the mayor and parks commissioner who hired Frederick Law Olmsted to design Buffalo's park system and its showpiece, Delaware Park...

) was born in Waterford

Waterford

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, Ireland

Ireland

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. He immigrated to the United States

United States

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 in 1784 with his parents, who settled in Easton, Pennsylvania

Easton, Pennsylvania

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. He learned the printing trade and was editor and owner of the Northampton Farmer from 1805 to 1814.

He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate

Pennsylvania State Senate

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 from 1815 to 1818. Rogers was elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth

15th United States Congress

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 Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Ross

John Ross (representative)

John Ross , was a Representative to the U.S. Congress from Pennsylvania....

. He was reelected to the Sixteenth

16th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:During this congress, one House seat was added for the new state of Alabama and one seat was reapportioned from Massachusetts to the new state of Maine. For the beginning of the next congress, six more seats from Massachusetts would be reapportioned to...

, Seventeenth

17th United States Congress

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, and Eighteenth

18th United States Congress

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 Congresses and served until April 20, 1824, when he resigned.

He served as a trustee

Trustee

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 of Lafayette College

Lafayette College

Lafayette College is a private coeducational liberal arts and engineering college located in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. The school, founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter,son of General Andrew Porter of Norristown and citizens of Easton, first began holding classes in 1832...

 from 1826 to 1832. He was a register and recorder of deeds

Recorder of deeds

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 for Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Northampton County, Pennsylvania

As of the 2010 census, the county was 86.3% White, 5.0% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American or Alaskan Native, 2.4% Asian, 0.0% Native Hawaiian, 2.2% were two or more races, and 3.8% were some other race. 10.5% of the population were of Hispanic or Latino ancestry.As of the census of...

, from 1828 to 1830. He served as brigadier general in the State militia and as United States naval officer at the port of Philadelphia. He died in New York City in 1832. Interment in the graveyard of the New Market Street Baptist Church in Philadelphia. Reinterment in Glenwood Cemetery in 1851.

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