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From August 11, 1969, to December 18, 1970, Rogers served under appointment of [[U.S. President]] Richard Nixon as the [[United States Attorney]] for the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. His nomination was supported by most of the newspapers in South Carolina but actively opposed by the [[NAACP]], Soon Senator Thurmond recommended to President Nixon that Rogers be appointed to a federal judgeship, but the nomination stalled, and an angry Rogers resigned as U.S. attorney and withdrew from further consideration for the judgeship. He blamed the inaction on the Nixon administration that he and Thurmond had helped to bring to power. Thereafter, Rogers resumed his legal practice in Manning<ref name=rogerspapers>{{cite web|url=http://library.sc.edu/scpc/Rogers.pdf|title=Joseph O. Rogers, Jr., Papers|publisher=library.sc.edu|accessdate=May 3, 2014; specific material may no longer be accessible on-line}}</ref> until his retirement in 1990. On numerous occasions into the 1990s, he was a Special Circuit Court Judge. A member of the Clarendon County Development Board, Rogers was named "Economic Ambassador" for Clarendon County in 1993.<ref name=rogerspapers/>

From August 11, 1969, to December 18, 1970, Rogers served under appointment of [[U.S. President]] Richard Nixon as the [[United States Attorney]] for the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. His nomination was supported by most of the newspapers in South Carolina but actively opposed by the [[NAACP]], Soon Senator Thurmond recommended to President Nixon that Rogers be appointed to a federal judgeship, but the nomination stalled, and an angry Rogers resigned as U.S. attorney and withdrew from further consideration for the judgeship. He blamed the inaction on the Nixon administration that he and Thurmond had helped to bring to power. Thereafter, Rogers resumed his legal practice in Manning<ref name=rogerspapers>{{cite web|url=http://library.sc.edu/scpc/Rogers.pdf|title=Joseph O. Rogers, Jr., Papers|publisher=library.sc.edu|accessdate=May 3, 2014; specific material may no longer be accessible on-line}}</ref> until his retirement in 1990. On numerous occasions into the 1990s, he was a Special Circuit Court Judge. A member of the Clarendon County Development Board, Rogers was named "Economic Ambassador" for Clarendon County in 1993.<ref name=rogerspapers/>

==Deaath==

==Death==

Rogers died at the age of seventy-seven. His papers from 1942 until his death in 1999 are in the South Carolina Political Collections of the University of South Carolina.<ref name=rogerspapers/> The Joseph O. Rogers, Jr. Scholarship at the University of South Carolina School of Law bears his name.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.sc.edu/awards_day/2014/rogers_recommendation.php|title=Joseph O. Rogers, Jr. Scholarship|publisher=law.sc.edu|accessdate=May 3, 2014}}</ref>

Rogers died at the age of seventy-seven. His papers from 1942 until his death in 1999 are in the South Carolina Political Collections of the University of South Carolina.<ref name=rogerspapers/> The Joseph O. Rogers, Jr. Scholarship at the University of South Carolina School of Law bears his name.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.sc.edu/awards_day/2014/rogers_recommendation.php|title=Joseph O. Rogers, Jr. Scholarship|publisher=law.sc.edu|accessdate=May 3, 2014}}</ref>