He was elected reeve of the Rural Municipality of Shell River in 1920, and held this position for well over a decade, serving two terms.
This party was influenced by the recent victory of William Aberhart in Alberta, and promised a similar program of monetary reform.
In 1940, Rogers was responsible for bringing Social Credit into the all-party coalition government proposed by Liberal-Progressive Premier John Bracken.
The decision to join government split the Social Credit ranks, and several of the party's candidates in 1941 ran against the coalition.
Rogers, Fox and Turnbull (all government supporters) were the only party members re-elected,[3] and the group does not seem to have had a leader during the parliament that followed.