USPS in 1979 issued a first day cover stamp marking the 100th birth anniversary of Will Rogers. It was postmarked in Claremore, Oklahoma -- near his birthplace Oologah.
He was previously honoured on a three-cent stamp in 1948. The stamp memorialised one of his famous lines that sums up his approach to life: “I never met a man I didn’t like.”
William Penn Adair Rogers (1879 – 1935) was an American stage and film actor, vaudeville performer, cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator from Oklahoma. He was a Cherokee citizen born in the Cherokee Nation, Oologah, Indian Territory.
Raised on the family ranch in Oklahoma, Rogers was skillful at contest roping, popular in Wild West shows and vaudeville as a trick roper. Later in his life, the multi-talented Rogers wrote books and newspaper columns and appeared in movies and on the radio. As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, made 71 films (50 silent films and 21 "talkies"), and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns.
In 1935, Will Rogers and aviation pioneer Wiley Post died when Post's aircraft crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska.
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