John Rankin Rogers

John Rankin Rogers (born September 4, 1838, died December 26, 1901) was the third governor of Washington state. Serving three consecutive terms between January 11, 1897 and his death. He was a Populist Democrat.

John R. Rogers authored many books, pamphlets and articleshttp://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/Holland/masc/finders/cg615.htm 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 Movementhttp://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/clancy_georgist_movement.html, based on the American land reformer Henry George's theories, until coming to the conclusion that it would create too much government bureacracy to institute.

The football stadium at Washington State University in Pullman was named after Rogers until 1972, when it was changed to Clarence D. Martin Stadium after the eleventh governor of Washington (a graduate of the University of Washington).