Frank Logue

Frank Logue (born August 1924) was the 25th mayor of New Haven, serving from 1976 to 1979.

His mother was widowed, leaving her to support five children during the depression on a kindergarden teacher's salary and her late husband's insurance. All four sons attended Yale, where, after Pearl Harbor, they enlisted in the reserves. Frank Logue was called to active duty in 1943, served as an infantry soldier in France, and returned to Yale, graduating in 1948, and going on to attend Yale Law School. Entered politics in Trumbull, Connecticut in 1953, becoming a Democratic district leader, then a prosecutor, and then town attorney. He ran for state representative in 1960, and lost. He served the Kennedy administration as a part-time staff person for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. At age 40 he moved his family to New Haven, where he organized and directed an institute to train community organizers and neighbor workers in the War on Poverty. He later created and directed an urban leadership development program for minorities and women. He was subsequently elected to the Board of Aldermen. Bucking the New Haven Democratic party machine, he ran against their candidate in the primary and went on to become mayor in 1976. He won again against the machine's candidate in the primary and served a second term, but lost his primary race for a third two-year term. Frank Logue's brother Edward, a Yale Law School graduate who married the daughter of William DeVane, dean of Yale College, was an influential city planner who was Mayor Lee's right hand man on most administrative matters.