predecessor parliament successor birth_place constituency_mp death_date cabinet party office birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name
alexander haggart albert hudson john stewart mcdiarmid canadian canadian district mutch was abolished in 1914 john stewart mcdiarmid leslie lakefield , canada east winnipeg winnipeg south 21 july 1936 '' -lrb- 1900 -rrb- minister of public works -lrb- 1900 -- ` 1911 -rrb- '' ` federal '' ' : superintendent-general of provincial indian affairs -lrb- 1911 -- 1912 -rrb- minister of the '' interior -lrb- 1911 -- 1912 -rrb- minister of mines -lrb- ' 1912 -rrb- minister of public works -lrb- 1912 -- 1917 : -rrb- minister without portfolio conservative member of the legislative assembly of manitoba for manitou 02 march 1864 1911 1925 1930 1899 robert rogers.jpg robert rogers -lrb- manitoba politician -rrb-
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robert rogers -lrb- manitoba politician -rrb-

robert rogers , pc -lrb- march 2 , 1864 -- july 21 , 1936 -rrb- was a canadian merchant and politician .
he served as a cabinet minister at the federal and provincial levels .
rogers was born in lakefield , canada east -lrb- now quebec -rrb- , the son of lieutenant-colonel george rogers .
he was educated in lachute , berthier and montreal , and later moved to winnipeg , manitoba to become director of the monarch life assurance company .
in religion , he was a member of the church of england .
he contested lisgar in the 1896 federal election as a candidate of the federal conservative party , and lost to liberal robert lorne richardson by fifty-four votes .
rogers was elected to the legislative assembly of manitoba in the 1899 provincial election as a conservative candidate , defeating liberal candidate j.l. brown by twenty-eight votes in manitou .
the conservatives won this election , and rogers sat in the legislature as a backbench supporter of hugh john macdonald 's administration .
when rodmond palen roblin succeeded macdonald as premier on october 29 , 1900 , he appointed rogers as a minister without portfolio .
on december 20 , 1900 , rogers was promoted to the powerful position of minister of public works .
he remained in this position for eleven years , and was often regarded as the second most powerful figure in roblin 's cabinet , helping the premier construct an effective patronage network .
he was re-elected without difficulty in the campaigns of 1903 , 1907 and 1910 .
rogers turned to federal politics in 1911 .
the federal conservative party under robert borden defeated wilfrid laurier 's governing liberals in the 1911 federal election , due in part to assistance from roblin 's electoral machine in manitoba .
although rogers was not a candidate in the election , he was appointed as canada 's minister of the interior and superintendent-general of indian affairs on october 10 , 1911 .
seventeen days later , he was acclaimed to the house of commons in a by-election for winnipeg .
rogers was given additional responsibilities as minister of mines on march 30 , 1912 .
on october 29 , 1912 , he left his other portfolios to become canada 's minister of public works , a position which he held for five years .
he did not seek re-election in 1917 .
he attempted to return to the house of commons for lisgar in the 1921 election , but lost to progressive candidate john livingstone brown by 1,164 votes .
rogers was returned to parliament in the 1925 election , defeating former liberal premier tobias c. norris by 1,617 votes in winnipeg south .
in the following year 's election , he lost his seat to liberal john stewart mcdiarmid by 1,171 votes .
he was a candidate at the conservative party leadership convention in 1927 , and finished fifth out of six candidates .
rogers won election to the house of commons for a third time in the 1930 election , defeating mcdiarmid by 343 votes .
he was not included in the cabinet of conservative prime minister richard bennett , and retired from politics in 1935 .
