Patrick J. Rogers

Patrick J. Rogers (March 4, 1844 – June 21, 1897) was an Irish-American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life Rogers was born on March 4, 1844, in Castlebar, Ireland. His father, also Patrick J. Rogers, was a Castlebar businessman, an active supporter of Daniel O'Connell, and a prominent member of Conciliation Hall from its establishment to its dissolution.

In 1861, Rogers went to America and settled in Seneca Falls, New York. In June 1872, he organized Company K, 49th Regiment, National Guard of the State of New York, and was elected captain of the company. He initially worked as a mechanic, but in 1870 he was admitted to the bar and began working as a lawyer. He was reappointed to the Board by the Secretary of the Interior in June 1887. He left the Board in July 1888, when Congress failed to pass a legislative appropriation bill for the fiscal year before his term expired. He was instead appointed a law clerk in the Assistant Attorney-General's Office for the Interior Department. During Benjamin Harrison's presidency, he worked for a leading law firm in Washington, D.C. In November 1896, he resigned from his position due to poor health. Secretary David R. Francis had him transferred to the pension department, assigned a special agent for Southern California, and sent to Los Angeles, California.

Rogers was first married to a daughter of Jeremiah Cronin, with whom he had a daughter. He later married Kate Hopkins, with whom he had two daughters and a son. He was buried in Seneca Falls.