William Pierce Rogers was born on June 23, 1913, in Norfolk in upstate New York. His father was an insurance agent. When he was 13, William Rogers' mother died, and he went to live with his ...

WASHINGTON — William Pierce Rogers, the secretary of state who was eclipsed, and eventually replaced, by Henry A. Kissinger during Richard Nixon’s presidency, died Tuesday night. He was 87.

William Pierce Rogers, the urbane lawyer who was attorney general in the Eisenhower administration and secretary of state under President Nixon, has died, a spokesman for his law firm said Wednesday.