Clifford Joy "Doc" Rogers was born on December 20, 1897 in Clarion, Iowa. Orphaned at the age of seven, he was raised by an uncle who held degrees in both medicine and dentistry and was on the faculty of the University of Iowa for fifty years. Clifford Rogers became known as "Little Doc" to distinguish him from his uncle. He graduated from Iowa City high school and the University of Iowa.

During World War I, he served on the Mexican Border and in France. After the war he took up a homestead in Campbell County. In Gillette he taught and coached in the high school before moving to Sheridan where he was employed at the Veterans Hospital from 1924 to 1928.

He entered state government in 1928 working in the Motor Vehicle Division. He became secretary to Governor A.M. Clark and was later named deputy Secretary of State. After operating a motel and filling station in Cheyenne, Rogers was elected State Treasurer in 1946 and Secretary of State in 1950. He served as Acting Governor from 1953 to 1955 when Governor Frank A. Barrett was elected to the US Senate. He lost the gubernatorial election in 1956 to Milward Simpson but was elected State Treasurer in 1958.

Rogers died in Cheyenne on May 18, 1962.

Inaugural Proclaimation 1953

The Governor Clifford J. Rogers Collection

The records from Governor Rogers' term in office include:

• Administrative Records
• Subject Files
• General
• Accountancy, Board of - General
• Accountancy, Board of - Appointments
• Budget
• Budget - General
• Budget - Charities & Reform - General
• Budget - Charities & Reform - Construction
• Budget - Legislative Ways & Means Committee
• Budget - Probation & Parole
• Budget - Supplies, Board of
• Civil Defense
• Civil Defense - General
• Civil Defense - Advisory Board
•  Civil Defense - Advisory Committee For Women's Activities
• Civil Defense - Executive
• Civil Defense - Health Service Coordinators
• Civil Defense - Planning Board
• Coal Mine Inspectors
• Coal Mine Inspectors - General
• Coal Mine Inspectors - Appointments
• Displaced Persons Commission
• Examiner, State
• Game & Fish Dept.
• Game & Fish Dept. - General
• Game & Fish Dept. - Appointments
• Game & Fish Dept. - Investigation
• Governor's Office Appointments
• Highway Commission
• Highway Patrol
• Legislation
• Legislation - Public Correspondence
• Legislative Interim Committee
• Legislature - Correspondence
• Legislature - Enrolled Acts
• Missouri River Basin
• Missouri River States Committee
• Public Lands
• Public Lands - Dept. of - General
• Public Lands - Dept. of - Appointments
• University of Wyoming
• University of Wyoming - Correspondence
• University of Wyoming - Financial
• University of Wyoming - President's Reports
• University of Wyoming - Reports
• University of Wyoming - Trustees - Appointments
• University of Wyoming - Trustees - Correspondence
•  University of Wyoming - Trustees - Minutes
• Western Governors' Conference
• Western Governors' Mining Advisory Council
• Expense Ledger

Quotations

So long as we, the citizens of America, will it, there can be no master race of politicians to hold us in slavery here. But should we relax our vigilance in the slightest degree, let me warn you, there is an army of political masterminds called "Economic Planners" which would chart a destiny of bondage for us and "lead us down the road" of planned economy into socialism and communism. Our national and state legislative bodies must remain eternally vigilant for this thing must not happen to us." -- Message to the Legislature, 1953