Sion H. Rogers

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(September 30, 1825 — August 14, 1874) Rogers was an American politician and lawyer. Sion Hart Rogers was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1825. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1846, after which he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1848. Rogers was first elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Whig and served from March 4, 1853 to March 3, 1855. He returned to Raleigh and served as the solicitor of the district superior court. During the Civil War, he was a lieutenant in the Confederate Army and was eventually commissioned colonel. He resigned from the army in 1863 because he had been elected as State attorney general. Rogers was again elected, this time as a Democrat, to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/R000402]

Member of North Carolina Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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