After the war he worked as a real estate and insurance broker, became involved in contracting and engineering business, and was on the board of directors of the Flushing National Bank.

[1] After the United States entered World War II, Roe volunteered for Army service and was commissioned as a major in the Corps of Engineers.

He courted controversy in 1948 when he led a movement to draft Dwight Eisenhower to run for president while the general's political affiliation was unknown.

Roe believed that Harry Truman would be defeated in the 1948 election and decided that the Queens delegation would not support anyone at the 1948 Democratic National Convention.

He was indicted for attempting to offer a $10 bribe to two police officers during a 1968 traffic stop, and was acquitted one day after he was killed in a plane crash.