William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 August 15, 1935) was a Cherokee cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor. Known as Oklahoma's favorite son, Rogers was born to a prominent Indian Territory family. He traveled around the world three times, made 71 movies (50 silent films and 21 "talkies"), wrote more than 4000 nationally-syndicated newspaper columns, and became a world-famous figure. By the mid-1930s, Rogers was adored by the American people. He was the leading political wit of the Progressive Era, and was the top-paid movie star in Hollywood at the time. Rogers died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post, when their small airplane crashed near Barrow, Alaska Territory. He poked fun at gangsters, prohibition, politicians, government programs and much more... "When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I dident like." I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it." "I belong to no organized party, I'm a Democrat" "Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago." "What of ugly campaign rumors? Don't worry: "The things they whisper aren't as bad as what they say out loud" "Our foreign policy is an open book - a checkbook ...
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