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Mr. Rogers, the Republican candidate for Senate, is squaring off against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, a 41-year-old Rhodes scholar and doctor who never practiced medicine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
A Rhodes scholar and a veteran, Buttigieg became the mayor of South Bend, Ind., in 2012.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2024
The auditor studied political science and economics at the University of Mississippi and was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University in the United Kingdom.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
He then studied politics as a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford in England before receiving his law degree from Yale in 1952.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2023
The oldest son gained his A. B. in 1910 at the age of eighteen; in 1911 was appointed Rhodes scholar for Kansas; and is now a student at Oxford.
From Kansas Women in Literature by Nettie Garmer Barker
