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Lindsay Rogers

1891–1970

A longtime Columbia University professor, he wrote about American government with the clarity of a teacher and the curiosity of a public observer. His books helped readers make sense of Congress, the presidency, and the pressures of modern politics.

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The postal power of Congress: A study in constitutional expansion

The postal power of Congress: A study in constitutional expansion

by Lindsay Rogers

About the author

Born in 1891, he became a prominent American scholar of public law and government and spent much of his career at Columbia University. He was known for writing about how U.S. political institutions actually worked, not just how they were supposed to work, bringing academic insight to subjects that mattered in public life.

His books included The American Senate, Crisis Government, and The Pollsters, and he also wrote many articles over the course of his career. A memorial note in Political Science Quarterly described him as a longtime Columbia professor and an avid reader of biography, which fits the broad, human interest he brought to political writing.

Rogers died in 1971 according to that memorial source, so the commonly listed 1891–1970 date may be off by a year. I could not confirm a reliable portrait image from the sources I found, so no profile image is included here.