Leadership, Accomplishment and Cultural Celebration

Will Rogers

The 20th Century American Indian: Entertainment

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Issued in Claremore, Oklahoma on the 100th anniversary of Will Rogers’ birth, November 4, 1979, this is the third in the Performing Arts and Artists series of stamps and the second stamp to honor Will Rogers.

Will Rogers

Cherokee

Humanitarian, Author, and Philosopher

Will Rogers exposed the lie of the stereotypical view of the “stoic” or humorless Indian. He reached millions of Americans with his wry social and political commentaries. Born in 1879, at Oologah, Oklahoma and raised on the family ranch, he was skillful at contest roping, becoming popular in Wild West shows and vaudeville as a trick roper. The multi-talented Rogers wrote books and newspaper columns and appeared in movies and on the radio. The three-cent stamp memorializes one of his lines that sums up his approach to life: “I never met a man I didn’t like.”

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3-cent Will Rogers single. Issued in Claremore, Oklahoma, November 4, 1948.
 
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Will Rogers gets a laugh out of Franklin Roosevelt. Rogers: “I am not a member of any organized political party; I am a "Democrat." Courtesy: The Will Rogers Memorial Museum and Birthplace Ranch in Claremore and Oologah, Okla.
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Will Rogers, Eleanor Roosevelt 06/06/1933

Courtesy: The Will Rogers Memorial Museum and Birthplace Ranch in Claremore and Oologah, Okla.