[4] Rogers was a district judge for two years prior to his election to the state supreme court.
[3] He had earlier been a partner in the Tiche & Rogers law firm.
[4] Rogers taught in Tulane University's College of Law.
During World War I, Rogers was a member of Louisiana's branch of the Four Minute Men.
[4] On September 15, 1946,[4] Rogers died in Baptist Hospital in New Orleans from a heart ailment, at the age of 71.