John Rankin Rogers (September 4, 1838 – December 26, 1901) was an American politician who served as the third governor of Washington from 1897 to 1901.

[1] Rogers went to Boston as a youth and apprenticed as a druggist, then moved south to Mississippi in 1856 to manage a drug store for four years in Jackson.

The Act provided a mechanism of state funding to equalize support for free public education between counties which had a large tax base and those without.

John R. Rogers authored many books, pamphlets and articles[2] that followed a Populist and Arcadian Agrarian spirit.

Rogers Field, the football and track stadium at Washington State University in Pullman, was named for him in 1902.