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Thomas Jones Rogers (1781-7 December 1832) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-PA 6) from 1818 to 1823 (succeeding John Ross and Samuel D. Ingham and preceding Robert Harris) and from PA-8 from 1823 to 1824 (succeeding John Tod and preceding Ingham and George Wolf).

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Thomas J. Rogers was born in Waterford, Ireland in 1781, and he emigrated to Easton, Pennsylvania in 1784 and became a printer. He served in the state senate from 1815 to 1818 and in the US House of Representatives from 1818 to 1824, and he became a customs official in Philadelphia before dying in New York in 1832.

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