Clement Vann Rogers (January 11, 1839 – October 28, 1911) was an cattle baron and prominent Cherokee politician and judge in Indian Territory.

Clem Rogers' parents were both mixed-blood Cherokees who moved to Indian Territory in 1832, several years before the Trail of Tears.

When the Civil War broke out, Clem enlisted in the Confederate Army, and served under General Stand Watie.

[4] Clem's grandfather was Robert Rogers Sr., a Scotch-Irish immigrant and trader, who came to the area now known as West Virginia in 1800.

He then went to the Cherokee Male Seminary in Tahlequah, but soon dropped out to work as a hand on a ranch owned by Joel M. Bryan.

First, he had to persuade his mother and stepfather to give him twenty-five cows, a bull, four horses, and two slaves, Rabb and Houston, who had belonged to his father.

Both were born in 1839 in the Cherokee Nation West (after their parents moved to Indian Territory from Arkansas), both were of mixed blood.

Mary's black hair, broad face and narrow cheekbones emphasized her Cherokee ancestry.

The large majority of Cherokees were full-bloods, unable to speak English, non-slaveholders, subsistence farmers, clung to traditional ways of living, chose not to intermarry with whites and adamantly opposed to the idea of giving up their homeland in the Southeast to move across the Mississippi River.

Often called the "Conservatives", they lined up with Principal Chief John Ross and his National party which controlled the tribal government before removal.

In 1894 ... Clem Rogers became Vice President of the First National Bank of Claremore, a position he held until his death in 1911.

"[10] "In 1899, he was elected President of the Claremore School Board.... That part of his beloved Cooweescoowee District where he lived was re-named "Rogers County" in his honor.