John Rodgers

John grew up on a dairy farm in West Glover, Vermont with his parents, John W. Rodgers and Marie Amyot Rodgers, and his older brother Mark and sister Diane. The Rodgers family did not have a lot of money, but they had a loving family and lived in a tightly knit community. They raised much of their own food, growing large gardens, freezing and canning garden produce, as well as, raising beef, chicken, and pork. 

John started and has run a masonry company for over 30 years. While excavation and masonry remain John’s mainstay, he supplements in the winter with snow plowing and forestry, like all well seasoned Vermonters. The Vermont Farmers Hemp Company and Farmers Underground, the family cannabis business, remain their love, keeping all current generations in touch with the land. Brenda and John, and their son John, run all these businesses as a family team.

John has served for many years as a legislator and is well regarded as a person who works with people from all political parties and perspectives. He works hard to represent his constituents and the working-class people of Vermont and did not buy into partisan politics, often voting across party lines to do right by his constituents, his fellow Vermonters. John is one of the few (if not the only) legislator who has always stood up for everyone’s constitutional rights. 

In November of 2024, John was elected to be the Lieutenant Governor of Vermont and stands ready to cast the deciding vote in the Senate on behalf of the red plaid, and, if necessary, assume the serious task of governing in the absence of Governor Scott.