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William Pierce Rogers (
June 23,
1913 –
January 2,
2001) was an
American politician, who served as a
Cabinet officer in the administrations of two
U.S. Presidents in the third quarter of the
20th century.
Rogers was born
June 23,
1913, in
Norfolk, New York. He was raised, from early in his teens, following the death of his mother, by his grandparents, in
Canton, New York.
After education at
Colgate University and
Cornell University Law School, he passed the
bar in
1937. Under
Thomas E. Dewey he worked from
1938 to
1942 in the prosecution of
organized crime in
New York City. He entered the
US Navy in 1942, serving on the
USS Intrepid, including her action in the
Battle of Okinawa. His final rank in the Navy was lieutenant commander.
While serving as a
Committee Counsel to a
US Senate committee, he examined the documentation from the
House Un-American Activities Committee's investigation of
Alger Hiss at the request of then-Congressman
Richard M. Nixon, and advised Nixon that Hiss had lied and that the case against him should be pursued.
In 1950, Rogers became a partner in a
New York City law firm, Dwight, Royall, Harris, Koegel & Caskey. Thereafter he returned to this firm when not in government service. It was later renamed
Rogers & Wells, and subsequently
Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells. He worked in the firm's
Washington, D.C. office until several months before his death.
Rogers joined the Administration of President
Dwight D. Eisenhower in a Deputy-Attorney-General position in
1953, and then served from
1957 to
1961, as
Attorney General. He remained a close advisor to then-Vice-President Nixon, throughout the Eisenhower administration, especially in the
slush fund scandal that led to Nixon's
Checkers speech, and during Eisenhower's two medical crises.
He also served as
Secretary of State in the Nixon
Cabinet, from
1969 January 22 through
1973 September 3, when he among other things initiated efforts at a lasting peace in the
Arab-Israeli conflict through the so-called
Rogers Plan. However, his influence was gradually usurped by Nixon's national security adviser,
Henry Kissinger. Rogers received the
Presidential Medal of Freedom in
1973.
Rogers is also notable for leading the investigation into the explosion of the space shuttle
Challenger. This panel, called the
Rogers Commission, was the first to criticize
NASA management for its role in negligence of safety in the
Space Shuttle program. Among the more famous members of Rogers' panel were astronauts
Neil Armstrong and
Sally Ride, Air Force general
Donald Kutyna, and physicist
Richard Feynman.
Rogers died of congestive heart disease in
January 2,
2001, in
Bethesda, Maryland, and was buried in
Arlington National Cemetery. At the time of his death, Rogers was the last surviving member of the Eisenhower Administration.
In 2001, the Rogers family generously donated to Cornell Law Library
materials
that reflect the lives of William and Adele Rogers, the majority of items from the years 1969-1973.
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