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The Legal Reserve Building · 1935–1943

A legislator on the rolls

1942

When James P. Rogers died in March 1942, his obituary recorded a two-term Texas legislator and onetime candidate for lieutenant governor, a Harvard Street resident, and a Reagan Lodge Mason. The lodge’s membership had always run deeper into public life than a neighborhood fraternity strictly needed to.

The source

Source image: Houston press, Mar. 20, 1942
Source: Houston press, Mar. 20, 1942. Tap the image to view full size.