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The following recordings include Will Rogers a comedic keynote speech to a collection of bankers in 1924 and his first political speech made in support of a New York candidate for Congress William Penn Adair Rogers November 4 1879 August 15 1935 was an American stage and film actor vaudeville performer humorist and newspaper columnist from Oklahoma Born in Cherokee Nation territory Rogers was known as Oklahomas Favorite Son Rogers traveled the world made 71 films 50 silent films and 21 talkies and wrote more than 4000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns By the mid1930s Rogers was hugely popular in the United States as its leading political commentator and the highest paid Hollywood film star He died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post when their small airplane crashed in northern Alaska