Commodore Rodgers served with distinction during the War of 1812 and is known as the " Father of the American Navy.

Rodgers first entered the British House of Commons at a by-election in 1962, and served in Labour Governments under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, becoming Secretary of State for Transport in Callaghan's Cabinet in 1976.

During its heyday, the Cotton Club served as a hip meeting spot featuring regular " Celebrity Nights " on Sundays which featured celebrity guests such as Jimmy Durante, George Gershwin, Sophie Tucker, Paul Robeson, Al Jolson, Mae West, Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin, Eddie Cantor, Fanny Brice, Langston Hughes, Judy Garland, Moss Hart, and New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker, among others.

He was first elected as an MP at the 1970 general election as a member of the Labour Party, and served as a Parliamentary secretary in the Department of Transport under Bill Rodgers in the Callaghan government.

He has also recorded and performed as a solo artist, and served as a guitarist, songwriter and record producer for the likes of Duran Duran, Robert Palmer, Rod Stewart, The Almighty, Thunder, Love and Money, Mark Shaw, Then Jerico, C. C. Catch, Paul Rodgers ( with The Law ), Belinda Carlisle, Gun and many more.

Porter served in the Quasi war as a midshipman on board the USS Constellation under the command of John Rodgers.

John Rodgers ( July 11, 1772-August 1, 1838 ) was a senior naval officer in the United States Navy who served under six Presidents for nearly four decades during its formative years in the 1790s through the late 1830s, committing the greater bulk of his adult life to his country.

His son John Rodgers ( 1812 – 1882 ) served in the American Civil War, and his great-grandson John Rodgers ( 1881 – 1926 ) served in World War I.

Rodgers was taught music by his mother, learned to play the piano and guitar, and joined a band called " The Melodies " started by violinist Phil Clark, while he served in the United States Air Force in Korea.

Raymond Spencer Rodgers served as the president of Vancouver University Worldwide until his death in 2007.

* Rear Admiral Thomas S. Rodgers ( August 18, 1858 – February 28, 1931 ) was an officer in the United States Navy who served during the Spanish-American War and World War I.

Harrison is a PATH station on Frank E. Rodgers Boulevard south of the Interstate 280 overpass in Harrison, New Jersey served by the Newark – World Trade Center route.

Dr. Rodgers had served as the NIDDK's acting director since March 2006 and was the Institute's deputy director from 2001-2009.

Dr. Rodgers served as governor to the American College of Physicians for the Department of Health and Human Services from 1994 to 1997.

It also served as the basis for the libretto for Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, as well as for Phoebe and Henry Ephron's screenplay for the 1956 film version of the classic musical.

As a player with the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers, Rodgers served as a punt return specialist, pass receiver, and running back.

Former Nebraska coach Tom Osborne, who served as Nebraska's offensive coordinator in the early 1970s, wrote in his 1985 book More Than Winning that Rodgers had the greatest ability to return punts of any player he ever saw.

In between his playing and managing careers, Rodgers served as a coach for the Minnesota Twins ( 1970 – 74 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1976 ), and the Brewers ( 1978 – 80 ).

After leaving ONI in 1889, Rodgers served until 1892 aboard the protected cruiser, which at the time was the flagship of the Squadron of Evolution.

The NEW2UW newsroom was operated by Don Rodgers a newspaper journalist who served Prime Ministers Chifley and Curtin during the Second World War as their press secretary.

By the time the young Rodgers had joined him he was captain of his own ship the Maryland.

Promoted to captain in 1903, Rodgers spent two years as commanding officer of the battleship in the North Atlantic Fleet.

The world's first purpose-built container ship was the Clifford J. Rodgers, built in Montreal in 1955 and owned by the White Pass and Yukon Route.

The young Rodgers was put up on board a ship where he would remain on for the five years of his apprenticeship.

At the age of seventeen Captain Folger made Rodgers First Mate of the merchant ship Harmony.

By the time Rodgers completed his five years of apprenticeship in 1793 Folger highly recommended him for command on a merchant ship regularly employed in the European trade called the Jane, owned by the prominent Baltimore merchants Samuel and John Smith.

On March 5, 1799 Rodgers was promoted to Captain and received written orders to take command of the captured ship.

In June 1799 Rodgers relinquished command of the Insurgent, then at Norfolk, Virginia, receiving a letter from Secretary of the Navy Stoddert ordering him to Baltimore to supervise the outfitting of the USS Maryland, a Sloop-of-war bearing 20 guns, and then to take command of that ship.

In the early morning of the 23rd a ship was spotted on the horizon to the north-east which turned out to be the frigate, HMS Belvidera, commanded by Captain Richard Byron, whereupon Rodgers immediately gave chase, with the Congress following close behind.

During that summer Rodgers spent most of his time at Philadelphia's naval yard outfitting this ship.

He continued south, but President continued its pursuit because Commodore Rodgers was interested in identifying the ship that he now knew was not Guerriere.

Rodgers claimed that he had mistaken the British ship for a larger frigate and was adamant that Bingham had fired first.

His erratic behavior was often the cause of friction between him and Rodgers and led to a breakup of their partnership in 1943 before his death.

Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers ( 1902 – 1979 ) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart ( 1895 – 1943 ).

Comparisons between Rodgers and Hart and the successor team of Rodgers and Hammerstein are inevitable.

According to Aaron Fox, " the fundamental opposition between law-and-order authoritarianism and the image of ' outlaw ' authenticity ... has structured country's discourse of masculinity since the days of Jimmie Rodgers.

The connection between film and cylinder was not made until 1998, when Loughney and Edison NHS sound recordings curator Jerry Fabris arranged for the cylinder to be repaired and its contents recovered at the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archive of Recorded Sound in New York.

The show, a light-hearted musical, features a 1930s style Astaire / Rodgers romance between two men, and a same-sex marriage.

* Tom Rodgers, Head of Georgia 4-H between 1978 – 1993 and recipient of the Georgia 4-H Lifetime Achievement Award

Rodgers won both races four times each between 1975 and 1980, twice breaking the American record at Boston with a time of 2: 09: 55 in 1975 and a 2: 09: 27 in 1979.

The Dallas Museum of Art ( DMA ) is a major art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, USA, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood.

Then, on another occasion, a fistfight broke out between Paul Rodgers and Boz Burrell, only to be restrained by Mick Ralphs and Simon Kirke.

*-A debate between John Mackey, Milton Friedman, and T. J. Rodgers

Set in Pinner, London, it revolved around the romance between a widowed solicitor, Alec Callender, played by veteran television actor Anton Rodgers, and a much younger woman, Zoë Angell, played by Eve Matheson in seasons one and two and by Lesley Dunlop in seasons three through six.

* In 2005-2006, Queen + Paul Rodgers ( a collaboration between the band and the singer ) used the song as the house music for all of the concerts on their Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour.

This album saw the burgeoning of the songwriting partnership between Paul Rodgers and bassist Andy Fraser, which had been glimpsed on Tons of Sobs with songs such as " I'm a Mover "; here, eight out of the nine tracks bear a Fraser / Rodgers credit.

The band had broken up in April 1971 due to differences between singer Paul Rodgers and bassist Andy Fraser.

Woodall Rodgers Freeway, which runs north of downtown Dallas, between U. S. Highway 75 and Interstate 35E is named in his honor, as is Woodall Rodgers Plaza, which connects the West End with Victory and runs under the highway that also bears his name.