- David Logan (Oregon politician)
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David Logan 
13th Mayor of Portland, Oregon In office
1863–1864Preceded by William H. Farrar Succeeded by Henry Failing Member of the Oregon Territorial Legislature In office
1854–1854Constituency Washington County Member of the Oregon Constitutional Convention In office
1857–1857Constituency Multnomah County Personal details Born April 5, 1824
KentuckyDied March 26, 1874 (aged 49)
Yamhill County, OregonPolitical party Republican Spouse(s) Mary Porter Waldo Relations Stephen T. Logan David Logan (April 5, 1824 – March 26, 1874) was an American attorney and politician in the territory of and later state of Oregon. A native of Illinois, he moved to Oregon in 1850 where he served in the Oregon Territorial Legislature and in the Oregon Constitutional Convention. A founder of the Oregon Republican Party, he also served as mayor of Portland.
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Early life
David Logan was born in the state of Kentucky on April 5, 1824.[1] The family later moved to the town of Springfield, Illinois.[2] His father, Stephen T. Logan, practiced law as a partner with Abraham Lincoln in Springfield.[2][3] David Logan studied law in Springfield under his father and Lincoln passing the bar in 1844 in Sangamon County.[4][5] An anti-Democrat and Whig politically, Logan was to become a partner with Lincoln and his father in their practice before his drinking led to a falling out with his father.[4] Due to this falling out, Logan's father sent him to join the army and fight in the Mexican-American War.[4] David Logan also briefly moved to California. After Logan returned from the war, his father sent him to Oregon.[4]
In 1850, Logan arrived in what was then the Oregon Territory and set up a law practice in Lafayette.[2] He moved to Portland soon after and continued practicing law.[2] The next year he ran for representative office in the Oregon Territorial Legislature for Yamhill County, but lost to Matthew P. Deady.[4] Logan and Deady would have a long-running feud, Logan's drunkenness would continue to plague him, and further troubles included accusations of the rape of a Native American girl.[4] On January 20, 1852, he represented the United States in a customs dispute with the Hudson’s Bay Company at a court in Olympia, which was still part of the Oregon Territory at that time.[6]
Political career
In June 1854, Logan was elected to the Oregon Territorial Legislature to represent Washington County, which at that time included Portland and part of what later that year became Multnomah County.[7] In 1857, he was elected to represent Multnomah County at the Oregon Constitutional Convention.[1] Held from August to September in Salem, Logan was on the Judicial Department Committee.[1] Though he voted against the adoption of the Oregon Constitution, the document was approved and became effective upon statehood on February 14, 1859.[1] He also helped found the Oregon Republican Party.[2]
Upon statehood, Logan was the new Republican Party’s candidate for the state’s seat in the House of Representatives.[5] He lost in both 1859 and 1860 to Lansing Stout.[5] Logan was elected as the Mayor of Portland on April 6, 1863, and served until April 1864 when Henry Failing was elected to the office.[8] In 1868, he ran for Oregon’s seat in Congress as the Republican nominee, losing to Joseph Showalter Smith.[9]
Later years
In 1862, he married Mary Porter Waldo, and they had several children.[2] Logan entered a partnership with Erasmus D. Shattuck in 1857, and remained a partner until 1874.[9][10] In 1871, he partly retired to a farm in Yamhill County.[2] On March 26, 1874, David Logan died in Yamhill County at the age of 49.[1] He was called the “greatest jury lawyer of his time”.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e Biographical Sketch of David Logan. Crafting the Oregon Constitution, Oregon State Archives. Retrieved on December 31, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Corning, Howard M. (1989) Dictionary of Oregon History. Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 151.
- ^ Stephen T. Logan. Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, Northern Illinois University, 2002. Retrieved on December 31, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f Johnson, David Alan (1992). Founding the Far West: California, Oregon, and Nevada, 1840-1890. University of California Press. pp. 167–172. ISBN 0520073487. http://books.google.com/?id=n8aMn4CxknsC.
- ^ a b c Carey, Charles Henry (1922). History of Oregon. The Pioneer Historical Publishing Company. pp. 631. http://books.google.com/?id=yrt5AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA631&dq=david+logan+portland.
- ^ Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1890). The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Vol. 31 (History of Washington, Idaho and Montana: 1845-1889 ed.). A. L. Bancroft & Company, History Co.. pp. 55. http://books.google.com/?id=fzITAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA55&dq=david+logan+portland.
- ^ Williams, George H. (1901). "Political History of Oregon from 1853 to 1865". Oregon Historical Quarterly (Salem, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society) 2: 9. http://books.google.com/?id=ieQXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA9&dq=david+logan+portland.
- ^ Mayors of Portland. City of Portland. Retrieved on December 31, 2008.
- ^ a b Gaston, Joseph. (1911). Portland, Oregon, its history and builders: in connection with the antecedent explorations, discoveries, and movements of the pioneers that selected the site for the great city of the Pacific. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co. pp. 412, 587.
- ^ Hodgkin, F. E.; J. J. Galvin (1882). Pen Pictures of Representative Men of Oregon. Farmer and Dairyman Pub. House, Portland. p. 158. http://books.google.com/?id=mOHT9nx7ogIC&printsec=titlepage.
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- American military personnel of the Mexican–American War
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