Henry Wade Rogers (October 10, 1853 – August 16, 1926) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He also served as the 2nd Dean of Yale Law School from 1903 to 1916, and as the 6th president of Northwestern University from 1890 to 1900.
Henry Wade Rogers
Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1853 in Holland Patent, NY
Died 1926 in Pennington, NJ
FJC ID: 2039
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 5/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 16/year
Second Circuit Court of Appeals · 1913–1926
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Private practice, Minnesota1877–present
- Conference of Senior Circuit Judges (now Judicial Conference of the United States)Member · 1922–1925
- Yale Law SchoolFaculty · 1900–1916
- ↳lecturer · 1900–1901
- ↳professor · 1901–1920
- ↳dean · 1903–1916
President · 1890–1900- Law Department, University of MichiganDean · 1886–1890
Tappan professor of law · 1882–1886- Private practice, New Jersey, -1882
Appointments
1913–1926 · Appointed by Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
- Read law1877
- University of MichiganM.A. · 1877
- University of MichiganB.A. · 1874