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Will Rogers
William Penn Adair Rogers was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. 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". As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, made 71 films, and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns. B…
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Born 4 November 1879 · Died 15 August 1935 · Q457840
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2026· 4 entries
“studied the Fourth Reader for ten years”
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The Economic Times: Quote of the day by Will Rogers, 'Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else' shows importance of compassion, empathy, mindful of others' feelings in the ...
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Public attention spiked: 3,848 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.2× the usual 740, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: revised tone
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2025· 1 entry
News on 6: Former California Home Of Will Rogers Destroyed In Wildfire At Historic State Park
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2024· 1 entry
Yahoo: Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport is rebranding. What will the new name mean?
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2021· 1 entry
USA Today rated the claim “Will Rogers said government needs to "live as cheap as the people."” Missing Context.
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2019· 1 entry
Google celebrated his 140th birthday with a Google Doodle
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2008· 1 entry
Bozeman Daily Chronicle: Will Rogers program visits the Bozeman Public Library
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2007· 1 entry
“There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. QOTD 2007·11·04 Sound file”
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1991· 1 entry
Starred Keith Carradine in the lead role
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1979· 1 entry
It issued a United States Postal Service 15-cent stamp of him as part of the "Performing Arts" series
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded National Aviation Hall of Fame (1977).
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1976· 1 entry
Rogers was among the historical figures depicted in the artwork Our Nation's 200th Birthday, The Telephone's 100th Birthday by Stanley Meltzoff for Bell System
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1962· 1 entry
The town of Higgins, Texas, (near a ranch where Rogers had worked in 1922), began an annual observance of Will Rogers Day, in honor of the cowboy philosopher, who remained a close friend of Frank Ewing, the son of his ol
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1948· 1 entry
The United States Post Office commemorated Rogers with a three-cent postage stamp
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1947· 1 entry
A college football bowl game was named in his honor, but the event folded after the first year
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1944· 2 entries
Rogers's body was moved from a holding vault in Glendale, California, to the tomb
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Under the condition that polo be played on the field every year; it is home to the Will Rogers Polo Club
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1939· 1 entry
Before a crowd of more than 2,000 people
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1936· 1 entry
The NVA Hospital located in Saranac Lake, New York, was renamed as the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital by the National Vaudeville Artists association
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1935· 5 entries
Died 1935-08-15.
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“Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.”
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With aviator Wiley Post when their small airplane crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska, in northern Alaska
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The famed aviator Wiley Post, an Oklahoman, became interested in surveying a mail-and-passenger air route from the West Coast to Russia
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“Eu não conheço piadas, eu apenas presto atenção no Governo e conto os fatos que vi”
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1934· 2 entries
While introducing the song "The Last Round-Up" on the January 21 Gulf Oil program, Rogers commented that, “The words to the song are cowboy all right, but the tune is really a 'nigger' spiritual
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Made a globe-girdling tour and returned to play the lead in Eugene O'Neill's stage play Ah, Wilderness
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1933· 1 entry
A small town banker (David Harum) in 1934, and a rustic politician (Judge Priest) in 1934
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1932· 2 entries
When the Republican leadership attempted to remove the more conservative Curtis from the Hoover ticket, Rogers defended him, and took credit for keeping him on the ticket: "I saved my 'Injun' Charley Curtis for vice pres
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Rogers supported Democrat Franklin D
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1928· 1 entry
Campaign: 1928 presidential election.
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1926· 2 entries
The high-circulation weekly magazine The Saturday Evening Post financed a European tour for Rogers, in return for publication of his articles
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His short column "Will Rogers Says" reached 40 million newspaper readers
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1924· 1 entry
Were three directed by Rob Wagner: Two Wagons Both Covered, Going to Congress, and Our Congressman
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1923· 1 entry
Began a one-year stint for Hal Roach and made 12 pictures
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1922· 1 entry
“reached 40 million newspaper readers. He also wrote frequently for the mass-circulation upscale magazine The Saturday Evening Post. Rogers advised Americans to embrace the frontier values of neighborliness and democracy on the domestic front, while remaining clear of foreign entanglements. He took a strong, highly popular stand in favor of aviation, including a military air force of the sort his flying buddy General Billy Mitchell advocated. Rogers began a weekly column, titled”
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1918· 1 entry
As Samuel Goldwyn gave him the title role in Laughing Bill Hyde
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1911· 2 entries
In 1911, Rogers bought a 20-acre (8.1 ha) ranch near Claremore, Oklahoma, which he intended to use as his retirement home.
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Rogers bought a 20-acre (8
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1908· 2 entries
Rogers married Betty Blake (1879–1944), and the couple had four children: Will Rogers Jr
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In 1908, Rogers married Betty Blake (1879–1944), and the couple had four children: Will Rogers Jr., Mary Amelia, James Blake, and Fred Stone.
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1905· 1 entry
When a wild steer broke out of the arena and began to climb into the viewing stands
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1904· 1 entry
Appeared at the Saint Louis World's Fair, and began to try his roping skills on the vaudeville circuits
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1899· 1 entry
Rogers appeared in the St
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1895· 1 entry
And 1896, and then the Kemper Military School at Boonville, Missouri, over the 1897–98 school year
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1879· 2 entries
Born 1879-11-04.
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“column. Oklahoma honors Before his death, the state of Oklahoma commissioned a statue of Rogers, to be displayed as one of the two it has in the National Statuary Hall Collection of the United States Capitol. Rogers agreed on the condition that his image would be placed facing the House Chamber, supposedly so he could”
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1875· 1 entry
And was known as the "White House on the Verdigris River"
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