Edith Rogers (Alberta politician)

Edith Rogers
Rogers in 1935
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
In office
August 22, 1935 – March 21, 1940
Preceded byJohn Edward Brownlee
Succeeded byPercy McKelvey
ConstituencyPonoka
Personal details
Born
Edith Blanche Cox

(1894-09-20)September 20, 1894[1]
Eastville, Nova Scotia, Canada
DiedJuly 17, 1985(1985-07-17) (aged 90)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Political partySocial Credit (until 1940s)
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (from 1940s)
Spouse
William Rogers
(m. 1923; died 1968)
ProfessionTeacher

Edith Blanche Rogers (née Cox; September 20, 1894 – July 17, 1985) was a Canadian politician who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 until 1940. Born in Nova Scotia, she came west to Alberta to accept a job as a teacher. She later moved to Calgary where she encountered evangelist William Aberhart and became a convert to his social credit economic theories. After advocating these theories across the province, she was elected in the 1935 provincial election as a candidate of Aberhart's newly formed Social Credit League.

Left out of cabinet despite her loyalty to Aberhart, she sided with the insurgents during the 1937 Social Credit backbenchers' revolt, rejoining Aberhart's followers once a settlement was reached. She was defeated in the 1940 election. After her defeat, she abandoned Social Credit for the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, moved to Edmonton, and served for fifteen years as a school trustee. Rogers died in 1985.

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