John Jacob Rogers (August 18, 1881 – March 28, 1925) was an American lawyer and politician who served seven terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1913 until his death in office in 1925.
His wife, Edith Nourse Rogers, succeeded him in Congress and served for 35 years.
Rogers was a member of the Lowell city government in 1911 and school commissioner in 1912.
Congress
He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, until his death.
World War I
During the First World War, Rogers enlisted on September 12, 1918, as a private with the Twenty-ninth Training Battery, Tenth Training Battalion, Field Artillery, Fourth Central Officers’ Training School, and served until honorably discharged on November 29, 1918.
Foreign Service Act
Rogers is remembered as "The father of the Foreign Service" due to his sponsorship of the 1924 Foreign Service Act, also known as the Rogers Act.[1]