Joseph O. Rogers, Jr.
| Joseph Oscar "Joe" Rogers, Jr. | |
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United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina |
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In office August 11, 1969 – December 18, 1970 |
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| President | Richard Nixon |
| Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from Clarendon County | |
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In office 1955–1966 |
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| Succeeded by | Joseph Warren Coker |
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| Born |
October 8, 1921 Mullins, Marion County South Carolina, USA |
| Died | April 6, 1999 (aged 77) |
| Political party | Democratic-turned-Republican (1966) |
| Spouse(s) | Kathleen Brown Rogers (married 1949-1999, his death) |
| Children |
Pamela Rogers Melton |
| Parents | Lila McDonald and Joseph Oscar Rogers |
| Residence | Manning, Clarendon County, South Carolina |
| Alma mater |
Charleston High School |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | United Methodist Church |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | United States Army |
| Rank | Staff sergeant |
| Battles/wars |
World War II |
Pamela Rogers Melton
Joseph Oscar Rogers, III
Charleston High School
College of Charleston
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
World War II
North African Theater of Operations
Joseph Oscar "Joe" Rogers, Jr. (October 8, 1921 – April 6, 1999), was a lawyer from Manning, South Carolina, who served as a Democrat in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1955 to 1966, when he switched allegiance to the Republican Party. Rogers was the first serious Republican gubernatorial nominee in South Carolina in ninety years, but he was handily defeated in the 1966 general election by the incumbent Democrat Robert E. McNair.
Rogers was born in Mullins in Marion County in eastern South Carolina, the son of the senior Joseph Oscar Rogers and the former Lila McDonald. The family moved to Charleston, where he graduated in 1938 from the former Charleston High School and enrolled thereafter at the College of Charleston. With the outbreak of World War II, Rogers left college to serve in the United States Army. A staff sergeant, he was stationed in the 758th Engineer Company, Seventh Army, the North African Theater of Operations, including Morocco, Algiers, and Tunisia, and then in southern France. After the war, he completed his undergraduate education at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in Charleston and then in 1950 earned his law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in the capital city of Columbia.
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