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Logan, John Alexander

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Logan, John Alexander (1826–1886)

US soldier and politician. A lawyer, he volunteered to fight in the Mexican War, then served as a Democrat representative of Illinois in the US House of Representatives (1859–62). During the Civil War, he held high commands with the Union Army of Tennessee, despite occasional charges that he was a Southern sympathizer. After the war he initiated the first Decoration (Memorial) Day on 30 May 1868. Switching to the Republican Party, he again served Illinois as a US representative (1867–71) and then as senator (1871–77, 1879–86) and ran an unsuccessful campaign for the vice presidency (1884). Logan was born in Jackson County, Illinois.



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