Senator from the thirty-eighth district, composed of Grundy and Black Hawk counties, was born in Wheatland, Clinton county, Iowa, December 21, 1863. He is from old American stock, two of his ancestors having come over in the Mayflower in 1620, and one of them, Thomas Rogers, was the eighteenth signer of the Mayflower pact. He moved with his parents from Wheatland to Grundy county in the summer of 1879, where he lived on a farm three and one-half miles south of Grundy Center until the spring of 1893, when he moved into town and has lived there ever since. He attended Coe college, studied law in the office of the Honorable Daniel Kerr of Grundy Center and the Iowa College of Law in Des Moines, was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Iowa in May, 1897, and has practiced law and been an abstractor of titles thirty-two years. Was chairman of county central committee, member of state central committee (republican) from June, 1926 to 1930. Was first president of the Rotary club of Grundy Center, and is director in the First National bank. Is a member of the Presbyterian church, Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Masonic Lodges, and El Kahir Temple Shrine, Cedar Rapids. He was married to Gertrude Moffett June 12, 1889, and had two sons, Robert Moffett Rogers, residing in Kansas City, Missouri, and Laurence Ervein Rogers, who was accidentally killed by a live wire in his seventeenth year. Was elected to the senate November 6, 1928.