John Rogers (Cherokee chief)

Rogers left with the Old Settlers and first settled in Dardanelle, Arkansas, and later Mulberry, Arkansas. He was a member of the December 1827 delegation to Washington, D.C., and signed the Treaty of Washington of 6 May 1828. In December 1838 he was elected chief by the faction of Old Settlers who rejected the Cherokee Nation constitution of 1839. Rogers opposed John Ross's efforts to liquidate the Cherokee Nation West, but Ross succeeded in creating a constitution to unite the Cherokee Nation West and Cherokee Nation East. Rogers, in order to avoid signing the new agreement of union between the two groups, traveled to Mexico City during its signing in 1840. Rogers had operated a salt works near Salina, Oklahoma, since 1830, but in October 1843, all salt works were nationalized in the Cherokee Nation. In 1846, he traveled to Washington, D.C., to advocate for Old Settler rights, where he died on June 12, 1846.^[2]