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Edit your search or learn more Will Rogers Will Rogers from tree Clay Family Tree 585 People 0 Records 0 Sources Will Rogers Born in the Cherokee Nation in 1879, Rogers grew up among his people. His father, Clement Vann Rogers, part Cherokee, had built a house and begun a successful ranch business on tribal land in the Cooweescoowee District before the Civil War. John was the son of John Gunther and Amy Tillotson. Many landmarks were named in Rogers' honor: Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, where a recent expansion and renovation included the installation of a statue of Rogers on horseback in front of the terminal. He always performed in front of a special jewelled curtains and had two of them. Wiley Post, a famous aviator at the time, was a great friend of Will's who shared his love of flying. By 1868, Clem Rogers would move back to the Cooweescoowee district of the Cherokee Nation to reestablish the ranch, with his family rejoining him by 1870. He married Betty Blake in November 1908 and they had four children; Will Jr., Mary, Jim, and Fred who died of diphtheria at two. Outline Descent Trees ( 7 families in 5 apparently unrelated family groups separated here by dashed lines .) Davidson had the work cast in bronze in Brussels, Belgium. "[26], In 1932 Rogers supported Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was his favorite president and politician. ( 12: 1648-1758) John Rogers, Founder of Rogerenes [1648 - 1721] 18C9 John Rogers, 1 James ( 17: 1462-1690) John Rogers [1462 - 1547] 4C19 And, this white, Greek-revival style ranch house was the center of the Rogers family life. Family tree of Will ROGERS Actor Born William Penn Adair ROGERS American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, social commentator and motion picture actor Born on November 04, 1879 in Oologah, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), USA , United States Died on August 15, 1935 in Point Barrow, Alaska Territory (now Alaska), USA Born on November 04 52 Early registers teem with the name and many persons bearing it are recorded as tenants in Domesday Book. Others, such as Broadway comedian Raymond Hitchcock and Britain's Sir Harry Lauder, preceded him by several years. Plot #44211633. Rogers served as a goodwill ambassador to Mexico, and had a brief stint as mayor of Beverly Hills, a largely ceremonial position that allowed Rogers to joke about do-nothing politicians such as himself. After that, he did not return to the screen until beginning work in the 'talkies' in 1929. Seasonal Hours (November 11 - February 28) Closed Monday, Tuesday, Thanksgiving and Christmas. var rcds = document.getElementById("rcjsload_b42b6d"); I did some roping and riding, and Jack, who was one of the smartest showmen I ever knew, took a great interest in me. I learned a lot about the show business from him. I ain't got anything funny to say. He was killed in 1935 with pilot Wiley Post when their plane crashed in Alaska. Death date: 8 . Genealogy profile for Will Rogers Will Rogers (deceased) - Genealogy Genealogy for Will Rogers (deceased) family tree on Geni, with over 240 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. During this time he became the first civilian to fly from coast to coast with pilots flying the mail in early air mail flights. 1914-1923 results for Christiana Rogers. Rogers County, Oklahoma, is named in honor of him. Among the films he made for Roach in 1924 were three directed by Rob Wagner: Two Wagons Both Covered, Going to Congress, and Our Congressman. By the time Will Rogers was born in 1879, the Rogers ranch was expansive. The signed burgee is on display at South Coast Corinthian Yacht Club in Marina del Rey, California. Will Rogers was born in Rogers County near Oologah in 1879. He bought up his sisters share of the ranch, and put his nephew, Herb McSpadden, in charge of it. He asked Post to fly him through Alaska in search of new material for his newspaper column. And, on the other side of the railroad tracks, on the western section of the ranch, Clem began raising turkey red wheat. He had been a close friend of Rogers. Anne Rogers is geboren, dochter van Sir Thomas Henry Fitz Rogers. Will Roger's more remote maternal ancestry for many years has been a mystery. Everything that was grown or raised on the Rogers ranch was somehow related to the production of beef. Rogers furthermore represented the "American Prometheus" through his commitment to utilitarian methods and his ever-optimistic faith in future progress. Relatives. He attached a Lockheed Explorer wing to a Lockheed Orion fuselage, fitting floats for landing in the lakes of Alaska and Siberia. Moreover, Rogers extolled hard work in order to succeed, and such expressions affirmed American theories about how to realize individual success. He then married Susannah Walling and they had four children together. Father of Rep. William Vann Rogers, Jr. (D-CA); Mary Amelia Brooks; James Blake Rogers; Fred Stone Rogers; Private and 2 others; Mary Amelia Brooks and Private less Research genealogy for Warren Earl Rogers of Wibarx Wibar, Montana, as well as other members of the Rogers family, on Ancestry. In 1947, a college football bowl game was named in his honor, but the event folded after the first year. Descendants of James R. Mitts Generation No. His favorite director was John Ford. THOMAS ROGERS ORIGIN: Leiden, Holland MIGRATION: 1620 in Mayflower FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth land division Joseph Rogers was granted two acres as a passenger on the Mayflower, for himself and his deceased father [PCR 12:4]. Rogers was a Democrat but has historically been known as apolitical. Please try again. During the late 1870s and 1880s, the Rogers ranch devoted three hundred acres to the production of corn and oats, and more than one hundred acres to hay. Ancestry-Hauptmen berspringen Hauptmen . Will was a first cousin, once removed, of actor Clu Gulager. William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 - August 15, 1935) was an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, social commentator and motion picture actor. Web. [47] A memorial is also located within the city of Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska. This is the environment in which Will Rogers was raised. Born 4 November 1879 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Co., OK. Deceased 15 August 1935 - Barrow, AK,aged 55 years old. He signed on with the Ziegfield Follies in 1915 and soon became a popular and well-paid stage performer. [10] Through the columns for the McNaught Syndicate between 1922 and 1935, as well as his personal appearances and radio broadcasts, he won the loving admiration of the American people, poking jibes in witty ways at the issues of the day and prominent peopleoften politicians. Ediths paternal great-grandmother, Ahneewahkee Anewake (Ahna Wakie) Ailsey, was Cherokee, as was Ediths mother, Polly Terrapin. Young Clem Rogers had his eye on the sparsely-settled Cooweescoowee district as a site for a potential a ranch of his own. Will Rogers was an American cowboy, stage and film actor, vaudeville performer, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator. The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. Page 116 text: " 1 Swing? Will Rogers Jr. - Ancestry.com All results for Will Rogers Jr. 1-20 of 19,932,132 Browse by collection To get better results, add more information such as Birth Info, Death Info and Location even a guess will help. Wrong username or password. Rogers thought all campaigning was bunk. 208 pp. He appeared in approximately 50 silent films and 70 talkies, as well as the Ziegfeld Follies. This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 18:01. Images. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com Rodger was posthumously inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio. He married ROSANNA HURD and they had 12 children together. Research genealogy for William Carter Rogers of Washington County, Tennessee, USA, as well as other members of the Rogers family, on Ancestry. 6 56. Asked if there should be presidential debates? Roach, Fred, Jr. "Will Rogers' Youthful Relationship with His Father, Clem Rogers: a Story of Love and Tension". In 1979, it issued a United States Postal Service 15-cent stamp of him as part of the "Performing Arts" series. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. His humor never offended even those who were the targets of it. During the Republican Convention of 1928, while criticizing the party platform, Rogers welcomed the nomination of Kaw citizen Charles Curtis as vice president, although he felt the leadership had deliberately kept him from the presidency: "The Republican Party owed him something, but I didnt think they would be so low down as to pay him that way." Will Rogers was born on the Dog Iron Ranch in Indian Territory, near present-day Oologah, Oklahoma. Two memorial murals by Kent Twitchell were installed on the exterior of the fly loft. March 25. Avery was of part Cherokee descent, the son of Clement Vann and Wa-Li Vann; Averys brother was Chief James Vann, a Cherokee leader. In 1855, when he was sixteen, he was hired to help drive a herd of five-hundred longhorn steers from Indian Territory up to Kansas City, and Clem Rogers quit school for good. Peter C. Rollins, "Will Rogers: Symbolic Man, Journalist, and Film Image". "Humors sober side: Being an interview with Will Rogers, another of a series on. Leonard Franklin Slye (1911-1998) 2nd Generation 2. 1st Generation 1. Rogers could make a film, yet easily still rehearse and perform in the Follies. Known as Oklahoma's favorite son,[1] Rogers was born to a prominent Indian Territory family and learned to ride horses and use a lariat so well that he was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for throwing three ropes at onceone around the neck of a horse, another around the horse's rider, and a third around all four legs of the horse[citation needed]. [44] The Boy Scouts of America honored him with the Will Rogers Council and the Will Rogers Scout Reservation near Cleveland. Experts have studied the factors in the accident, and still disagree about it. [3] His parents, Clement Vann Rogers (18391911) and Mary America Schrimsher (18381890), were both of mixed race and Cherokee ancestry, and identified as Cherokee. Home; Trees; Search; DNA; . Born William Penn Adair Rogers the youngest of eight in Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory which would later be known as Oologah, Oklahoma to Mary America Scrimsher and Clem Rogers, a successful rancher. About 20 miles southwest of Point Barrow, having difficulty figuring their position due to bad weather, they landed in a lagoon to ask directions. He was much more interested in cowboys and horses, and learned to rope and use a lariat. I am a Democrat.". He returned to the United States in 1904, appeared at the Saint Louis World's Fair, and began to try his roping skills on the vaudeville circuits. Four years later, when the Republican leadership attempted to remove the more conservative Curtis from the Hoover ticket, Rogers defended him, and took credit with keeping him on the ticket: "I saved my 'Injun' Charley Curtis for vice presidency. Ancestry of Roy Rogers Cowboy movie actor and singer Look Click or tap a name to see more details including sources or famous kin. The line "All I know is what I read in the papers" is often incorrectly described as Rogers's most famous punch line, when it was his opening line.[18][19]. Rogers's cowboy was an unfettered man free of institutional restraints, with no bureaucrats to order his life. Research genealogy for William Henry "Willie" Rogers of Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA, as well as other members of the Rogers family, on Ancestry. The California Theatre in San Bernardino is the site of the humorist's final show. Rogers agreed on the condition that his image would be placed facing the House Chamber, supposedly so he could "keep an eye on Congress". Will Rogers was born on September 5, 1879, to Clement and Mary Rogers. His most unusual role may have been in the first talking version of Mark Twain's novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Archer Womack 7. Masonic history: Will Rogers petitioned Claremont Lodge No. Lucy was the daughter of Thomas Cordery and Saniovie/Soniovie/Susannah Sonicooie, who was Cherokee. rcel.id = 'rc_' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000); Don't worry: "The things they whisper aren't as bad as what they say out loud" (October 12). His father remarried less than two years after her death. The curtain used in his final show was retained by the California Theatre. Will, who pined for the days of the sprawling ranch of his youth, was not too interested in operating a small ranch. 53 on January 21, 1905 and received his degrees February 18, 1905, March 10 and 13, 1906. Airplanes may land on our grass airstrip in the hay meadow west of the Rogers ranch house. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); (function() { The ancestry of Will Rogers of the lost tribes of old Albemarle Title Also Known As: The ancestry of Will Rogers of the lost tribes of old Albermarle Authors: Love, Paula (Main Author) Format: Manuscript/Manuscript on Film Language: English Publication: Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1980 Physical: "Representative Clowns: Comedy and Democracy in America". Deze informatie is onderdeel van Genealogy Thrutchley/Anderson/Fitzgerel . Anne Hastings , Thomas de Ferrers, Philippa de LUXEMBOURG , Jean de HAINAUT, Simon De Joinville en Champagne , Batrix De Bourgogne, Marguerite d'ANJOU SICILE , Charles Ier Capet de Valois de FRANCE. According to scholar Peter Rollins (1976), Rogers appeared to be an anchor of stability; his conventional home life and traditional moral code reminded people of a recent past. [13], Will Rogers attended school in Indian Territory, at the Willie Halsel College at Vinita in 1895 and 1896, and then the Kemper Military School at Boonville over the 1897-1898 year. In these years, Rogers increasingly expressed the views of the "common man" in America. Maintenant disponible sur AbeBooks.fr - Hardcover - Privately Printed - 1869 - Etat : Good - 1st Edition - bound in half leather with cloth boards, some light wear to the top and bottom edge of the spine, some fading to the boards, some pencil writing to two pages, 10 pages Geni requires JavaScript! He became a prominent radio broadcaster and political commentator basing a large part of his humor upon politics which he called the best show in the world, describing Congress as the "national joke factory." He received world-wide fame as the American cowboy with the homespun sense of humor. He was also in County Chairman (1935), Steamboat Round the Bend (1935), and In Old Kentucky (1935). To feed the ranch and farm hands, they raised Duroc-Jersey pigs, Leghorn chickens, and many different fruits and vegetables in the orchards and farm land in the fertile river bottoms. This memorial was dedicated on February 16, 1950, by Rogers' longtime friend, Amon G. Carter. Home; Trees; . Sterling, Bryan B., and Frances N. Sterling, eds. The columns display each project member's kit number, paternal ancestry information according to project settings, the paternal tree branch (haplogroup), and actual STR marker results . [56], The Tony Award-winning musical The Will Rogers Follies, produced on Broadway in 1991, starred Keith Carradine in the lead role. To prove the point, he mounted a mock campaign in 1928 for the presidency. He was the father of U.S. He wrote many of the title cards appearing in his films. [31], In the 1920s, the United States was happy and prosperous in various ways[32] (leading to the nickname Roaring Twenties), but it also suffered from rapid change and social tensions. Skip Ancestry navigation Main Menu. Born William Penn Adair Rogers the youngest of eight in Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory which would later be known as Oologah, Oklahoma to Mary America Scrimsher and Clem Rogers, a successful rancher. We encourage . He bought a ranch in Pacific Palisades and set up his own production company. He was a member of the Scottish Rite and the Akdar Shrine Temple in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Rogers ranch house, known as the White House on the Verdigris was completed by 1875. He made two other feature silents and a travelogue series in 1927. Grateful for the guidance but anxious to move on, Rogers quit the circus and went to Australia. He was reinterred at the Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore, Oklahoma. His newspaper column, which ran from 1922 to 1935, expressed his traditional morality and his belief that political problems were not as serious as they sounded. With the new railroad splitting the ranch in two, by the 1890s, Clem Rogers changed his ranching operations. Born on November 9, 1925, on a ranch near Bushyhead in Rogers County, Oklahoma, Clem McSpadden became the sport of rodeo's unofficial number-one ambassador. In Oklahoma, he grew up alongside fellow Native Americans and Anglo-American settlers who lived in the area. Birth date: 4 March, 1924, Tuesday. Bobby H. Johnson and R. Stanley Mohler argued in a 1971 article that Post had ordered floats that did not reach Seattle in time for the planned trip. Wills mother and Clus paternal grandmother, Martha Lucretia Schrimsher, were sisters. However, well before Will Rogers was entertaining the country on stage, in newspapers, over the radio, or in movies, his father, Clem Rogers, had made a name for himself as a successful Cherokee rancher, businessman, and politician. He effectively used up-to-date slang and invented new words to fit his needs. They crashed at Point Barrow, Alaska, on August 15, 1935. . Wills great-grandfather Robert was the son of William Rogers and Mary Penn; Marys mother, Eughio-ote/Elizabeth Coody, was Cherokee. [6] His aphorisms, couched in humorous terms, were widely quoted: "I am not a member of an organized political party. In his films, Rogers began by playing a simple cowboy; his characters evolved to explore the meaning of innocence in ordinary life. He continued using the eastern section of his ranch for beef cattle, but slowly started switching breeds, going from Texas Longhorns, to Durham Shorthorns, to Herford. American humorist and entertainer (18791935). 1-20 of 12,254 Confronting Racism Career Fair Employer Rogers We're a proud Canadian company with a rich family history and we believe in making an impact from coast to coast to coast. She died when Will was 11, and his father remarried less than two years after her death. The house in which he was born had been built in 1875 and was known as the "White House on the Verdigris River". Results 1-20 of 7,618 Member Photo Photo Info Description Attached To; To get better results, add more information such as Birth Info, Death Info or Locationeven a guess will help. A small monument at the Renton airport commemorates the starting point of the fatal 1935 Post-Rogers flight. Clem attended a local Baptist mission school and later would also attend the Cherokee Male Seminary in Tahlequah for a few semesters. All Rights Reserved. The Will Rogers Turnpike is the section of Interstate 44 between Tulsa and Joplin, Missouri. In 1934, he made a globe-girdling tour and returned to play the lead in Eugene O'Neill's stage play Ah, Wilderness!. Wills maternal grandmother was Elizabeth Hunt Gunter (the daughter of John Edward Gunter and Catherine Lowery/Paint, or Catherine Rising Fawn Fox Bushyhead). Ambassador Dwight Morrow. He was friends with every president starting with Theodore Roosevelt,[25] and he notably supported Republican Calvin Coolidge over John W. Davis in 1924. . On a trip to New York City, Rogers was at Madison Square Garden, on April 27, 1905, when a wild steer broke out of the arena and began to climb into the viewing stands. He toured the lecture circuit. The Will Rogers Memorial Center was built in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1936. His popularity soared to new heights with films including Young As You Feel, Judge Priest, and Life Begins at 40, with Richard Cromwell and Rochelle Hudson. [55], James Whitmore portrayed Rogers in eight runs of the one-man play Will Rogers' USA between 1970 and 2000, including a limited run on Broadway in 1974, and as a television film in 1972. They needed horses. Several schools have been named for him: Will Rogers Elementary School in Santa Monica, Will Rogers Elementary School in Ventura, middle schools in Long Beach and in Fair Oaks. Both men died instantly. The clean moral tone of his films resulted in various public schools taking their classes to attend special showings during the school day. His campaign promise was that, if elected, he would resign. Edit your search or learn more Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 Birth, Baptism & Christening View For the next decade, Rogers estimated he worked for 50 weeks a year at the Roof and at the city's myriad vaudeville theaters. He represented the "American Adam" with his independence and self-made record. DA3116488 Fulltext: Jenkins, Ronald Scott. The personal name of Roger was exceedingly common all over the country in the 13th century. The first people in Scotland to acquire fixed surnames were the nobles and great landowners, who called themselves, or were called by others, after the lands they possessed. Specialties: Our providers and accomplished therapists adeptly manage ADHD, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, PTSD, anger management, addiction, martial discord or divorce, grief. This paper will present new and conclusive evidence as to the identity of Will's maternal grandfather's father. Rogers visited Post often at the airport in Burbank, California, while he was modifying the aircraft. Lived: 18541 days = 50 years. During the depths of the Great Depression, angered by Washington's inability to feed the people, he embarked on a cross country fundraising tour for the Red Cross. Fred Roach Jr., "Will Rogers Youthful Relationship with His Father, Clem Rogers: a Story of Love and Tension". William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 August 15, 1935) was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. [22] Going daily in 1926, his short column "Will Rogers Says" reached 40 million newspaper readers. A casting of Riding into the Sunset stands at the entrance to the main campus quad at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. He ultimately traveled around the world three times, made 71 movies (50 silent films and 21 "talkies"),[2] wrote more than 4,000 nationally-syndicated newspaper columns,[3] and became a world-famous figure. A plaque to Rogers and Post was also erected in Barrow. He visited Mexico City, along with Charles Lindbergh, as a guest of U.S. The Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun is the name of an 80-foot observation tower on Cheyenne Mountain west of Colorado Springs, at the base of Pikes Peak near the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. This time, Clem Rogers chose a location along the Verdigris River about seven miles to the east of his first claim. It vied with Robert, John and William for popularity for several centuries. He was a member of the Scottish Rite and the Akdar Shrine Temple in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Home; Trees; . "Claim Will Rogers Is Free To Insult Race Under Agreement". On November 4, 1948, the United States Post Office commemorated Rogers with a three-cent postage stamp. There was more to the 60,000 acres than just cattle grazing, however. Although Leonard Slye adopted the stage name Dick Weston in 1937, it was from Will Rogers' name that he derived the popular identity of Roy Rogers which ultimately brought him fame. His father, Robert Rogers, who was an early settler to Indian Territory, had died in 1840, leaving Clem and his mother, Sally Vann, to care for their small family farm. He was one of the world's best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s. His widow, Betty, willed the property to the state of California upon her death in 1944, under the condition that polo be played on the field every year; it is home to the Will Rogers Polo Club.[46]. Dedicated on June 6, 1939, before a crowd of more than 2,000people, the statue faces the floor entrance of the House of Representatives Chamber next to National Statuary Hall. 81 Copy quote. According to some Capitol guides, each U.S. president rubs the left shoe of the Rogers statue for good luck before entering the House Chamber to give the State of the Union address. "Wiley Post, His Winnie Mae, and the World's First Pressure Suit". Wills other ancestry was English, with some Scottish and Welsh. [9] Rogers quipped that his ancestors did not come over on the Mayflower, but they "met the boat". Clements death in 1911 precluded a full reconciliation. Followers. He appeared on stage in his cowboy outfit, nonchalantly twirling his lasso, and said, "Well, what shall I talk about? He died in 1822 in Sparta, Tennessee, at the age of 58, and was buried in. This information is part of Schaeffer-Massung Family Tree by Pam Schaeffer Massung on Genealogy Online. Many early films were filmed and produced in the New York area in those years. It was an area with few settlers and vast, wide-open prairies of native-growing blue stem grass. Congressman and WWII Veteran Will Rogers, Jr. Edit Search New Search Filters (1). Oklahoma History Society's, https://flinthillsspecial.com/2020/12/04/lucille-mulhall-and-the-mulhall-wild-west-show/. By 1916, Rogers was a featured star in Ziegfeld's Follies on Broadway, as he moved into satire by transforming the "Ropin' Fool" to the "Talkin' Fool". Will Rogers (William Penn Adair Rogers), one of America's beloved humorists and Oklahoma's dearest native son, was born November 4, 1879, in Indian Territory near Oologah. The final ship of the Benjamin Franklin-class submarines, USSWill Rogers(SSBN-659) was launched in 1966, and commissioned the following year. Rogers made whirlwind visits to numerous European capitals and met with both international figures and common people. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma), and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son". Will Rogers - Ancestry.com All results for Will Rogers 1-20 of 4,486,705 Browse by collection To get better results, add more information such as Birth Info, Death Info and Location even a guess will help. This weekly Sunday evening show, The Gulf Headliners, ranked among the top radio programs in the country. [10] His mother was one quarter-Cherokee and born into the Paint Clan. Learn how your comment data is processed. [4] The family lived in New York, but they spent summers in Oklahoma. The McSpadden family revived the ranch, and lived in the Rogers ranch house until 1960, when the ranch house was taken apart in two different pieces, and moved up on top of the hill in which it now sits, to save it when the Army Corp of Engineers dammed up the Verdigris River to create Oologah Lake. Ancestry Academy ; Gift Memberships ; Ancestry Lab ; Heritage Travel ; Provided in association with Find a Grave. 53 on January 21, 1905 and received his degrees February 18, 1905, March 10 and 13, 1906. Throughout his career, Rogers was a link to a better, more comprehensible past.[33]. Death record, obituary, funeral notice and information about the deceased person. He used a set that was designed for a larger type of plane, making the already nose-heavy hybrid aircraft even more nose-heavy. Peter C. Rollins, "Will Rogers, Ambassador sans Portfolio: Letters from a Self-made Diplomat to His President", Learn how and when to remove this template message, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, "Unexpected Cowboy, Unexpected Indian: The Case of Will Rogers", "This Day in Beverly Hills History: Will Rogers, City's First Honorary Mayor, Dies at 55", "Only in Oklahoma: Rogers statue unveiling filled U.S. Capitol", "RSU and Will Rogers Museum to Discuss Possible Merger", "Will Rogers grandson carries on tradition of family service", "Origin of County Names in Oklahoma". His first sound film, They Had to See Paris (1929), gave him the chance to exercise his verbal wit. He reasoned that for the moment, American needs could best be served by concentrating on domestic questions and avoiding foreign entanglements. 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