Richard Reid Rogers

Richard Reid Rogers
Rogers in 1924
3rd Military Governor of the Panama Canal Zone
In office
19 November 1906 – 31 March 1907
Appointed byTheodore Roosevelt
Preceded byCharles Edward Magoon
Succeeded byJoseph Clay Styles Blackburn
Personal details
Born(1867-12-04)December 4, 1867
Bourbon County, Kentucky, U.S.
DiedNovember 10, 1949(1949-11-10) (aged 81)
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Spouse
Sarah Eunice Tomlin
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(m. 1891; died 1945)​
RelationsJohn Jameson (grandfather)
Parent(s)Benjamin F. Rogers
Elizabeth H. Jameson
Alma materPrinceton University
University of Virginia

Richard Reid Rogers (December 4, 1867 – November 10, 1949) was a prominent United States lawyer, specializing in transit law.

Early life

He was born on December 4, 1867, in Bourbon County, Kentucky, to Benjamin F. Rogers and Elizabeth H. (née Jameson) Rogers.[1] After his father's unexpected death, his mother remarried to Judge Richard Reid. His maternal grandfather was U.S. Representative from Missouri, John Jameson.[2]

Rogers graduated in 1886 from Princeton University before studying law at the University of Virginia.[1]

Career

He began his career in New York City with Guthrie, Cravath, & Henderson, before serving as the general counsel to both the Isthmian Canal Commission and later the Panama Railroad Company.[3] He subsequently was counsel to the Metropolitan Street Railway and several of its successor companies.[1]

On June 20, 1906, Rogers was appointed as general counsel to the Isthmian Canal Commission, to replace outgoing Governor Charles Edward Magoon.[4] In November of that year, President Theodore Roosevelt temporarily abolished the office of Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, to give greater autonomy to the chief engineer of the canal project. This order placed all of the duties of the Governor on the general counsel, in effect making Rogers the Governor in all but title (though he was not required to govern from the Canal Zone itself and he remained in Washington, D.C.).[5]

Personal life

On June 25, 1891, Rogers was married to Sarah Eunice Tomlin (1867–1945) in Madison, Tennessee. They were the parents of one daughter:[6]

He died on November 10, 1949, at the University Club in New York City.[1] He was buried at the Machpelah Cemetery in Mount Sterling, Kentucky.

Descendants

Through his daughter Elizabeth, he was a grandfather of four: Elisabeth Auguste (1915–2003), Richard Christian (1917–1985), Waldemar (1919–2002) and Marie Louise Olga (1921–1999), who were permitted to title themselves Prinz/Prinzessin von Hessen (Prince/Princess of Hesse).[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "RICHARD R. ROGERS, A TRANSlT LAWYER; Counsel to Metropolitan Street Railways and Successors Here for 40 Years Dies at 81". The New York Times. 11 November 1949. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  2. ^ Reid, Elizabeth Jameson (1886). Judge Richard Reid: A Biography. Standard Publishing Company. p. 57. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  3. ^ Canals, United States Congress Senate Committee on Interoceanic (1912). Panama Canal: Hearings Before the Committee on Interoceanic Canals, United States Senate, Sixty-second Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 21969, a Bill to Provide for the Opening, Maintenance, Protection, and Operation of the Panama Canal, and the Sanitation and Government of the Canal Zone. U.S. Government Printing Office. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Canal Commission's General Counsel" (PDF). New York Times. June 30, 1906.
  5. ^ "Shifts Canal's Heads". The Washington Post. November 20, 1906. p. 1.
  6. ^ Tribune, International Herald (7 January 2015). "1915: Prince Will Visit Fiancée". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  7. ^ "To Wed nephew of Kaiser". The Washington Reporter. 22 December 1914. p. 1. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  8. ^ Times, Special to The New York (16 December 1914). "WILL WED GERMAN PRINCE.; Miss E.R. Rogers Engaged to Christian, a Captain in the Navy". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  9. ^ Almanach de Gotha. Justus Perthes. 1929. p. 480.
Political offices
Preceded by Military Governor of the Panama Canal Zone
1906–1907 		Succeeded by