James Rogers (congressman) explained

James Rogers
Birth Date:24 October 1795
Birth Place:Pinckney District, South Carolina
Death Place:South Carolina
Resting Place:Newberry, South Carolina
State1:South Carolina
District1:7th
Term Start1:March 4, 1839
Term End1:March 3, 1843
Predecessor1:William K. Clowney
Successor1:Robert B. Rhett
Term Start2:March 4, 1835
Term End2:March 3, 1837
Predecessor2:William K. Clowney
Successor2:William K. Clowney
Party:Democratic
Otherparty:Jacksonian (until 1837)

James Rogers (October 24, 1795 – December 21, 1873) was a United States representative from South Carolina. He was born in what is now Goshen Hill Township, Union County, South Carolina. He completed preparatory studies and graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia, South Carolina, in 1813. Later, he studied law and was admitted to the bar and began practice in Yorkville (now York), South Carolina.

Rogers held various local offices before he was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress. Years later, he was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1843). He died in South Carolina, on December 21, 1873, and was buried in what was formerly called the Irish Graveyard at Kings Creek A.R.P. Church near Newberry, South Carolina.