John Rankin Rogers (September 4, 1838—December 26, 1901) was the third governor of Washington state. Elected to two consecutive terms, he served between January 11, 1897 and his death. He was a Populist Democrat.
John R. Rogers authored many books, pamphlets and articles that followed a Populist and Arcadian Agrarian spirit. Growing up in New England when Jeffersonian ideals were talked about frequently was a strong influence on his political fut...
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John Rankin Rogers (September 4, 1838—December 26, 1901) was the third governor of Washington state. Elected to two consecutive terms, he served between January 11, 1897 and his death. He was a Populist Democrat.
John R. Rogers authored many books, pamphlets and articles that followed a Populist and Arcadian Agrarian spirit. Growing up in New England when Jeffersonian ideals were talked about frequently was a strong influence on his political future. He later moved to the South, where he was editor of the Kansas Commoner for several years in Wichita, and was an organizer within the Farmers' Alliance. He was an advocate for The Single Tax Movement, based on the American land reformer Henry George's theories, until coming to the conclusion that it would create too much government bureaucracy to institute.
As governor he supported the "Barefoot Schoolboy Act" which he had first sponsored while in the state legislature. The Act provided a mechanism of state funding to equalize support for...
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