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.
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Houston Post, Mar. 20, 1942, Sec. 2 front page: “James P. Rogers Funeral Sunday,” recording his two terms in the legislature and his membership in Reagan Lodge.
