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Joseph O. Rogers, Jr.
Joseph Oscar Rogers, Jr., known as Joe Rogers (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.
==Background==
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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Joseph Oscar Rogers, Jr. )〕〔
Rogers and his wife, the former Kathleen Brown of Hemingway in Williamsburg County in eastern South Carolina, married in 1949 and had three children, Pamela Rogers Melton, Joseph Oscar Rogers, III, an architect in Columbia, and the Reverend Timothy Julian Rogers. An active member of the United Methodist Church, Rogers served the congregation in Manning as Sunday school teacher, chairman of the administrative board, and lay delegate to the annual conference in 1968.〔
Rogers was a member of the Masonic lodge, Rotary International, the American Legion, and a director of the Bank of Clarendon in Manning.〔
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