John A. Logan

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John Alexander Logan (born February 9, 1826 in Murphysboro , Illinois , † December 26, 1886 in Washington, DC ) was an American major general and politician who represented the state of Illinois in both chambers of Congress . He was also the Republican Party's nominee for US Vice-Presidency , alongside James G. Blaine in the 1884 presidential election .

Life

After attending school, he studied law and served as a lieutenant in the US Army during the Mexican-American War between 1846 and 1848 . Upon his return to Illinois, he was first in 1849 clerk ( Clerk ) at the District Court of Jackson County and sat besides his studies of law continues. After completing his studies, he was admitted to the bar in 1852 .

In the same year he began his political career with the election to the House of Representatives from Illinois . Between 1853 and 1857 he was prosecutor of the 3rd judicial district of Illinois and at the same time from 1856 to 1857 a member of the state parliament again. As a representative of the Democratic Party , he was in the presidential election in the United States in 1856 as an electoral member of the Electoral College .

In 1858 he was elected as a Democrat to the House of Representatives of the United States and served as a representative of the 9th electoral district from March 4, 1859 to April 2, 1862. During that time he was Chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business .

On April 2, 1862, he voluntarily resigned from the House of Representatives to serve as Brigadier General in the Union Army during the Civil War . He was later promoted to major general in the Volunteer Army. After the death of James B. McPherson on July 22, 1864, he was for a short time Commander in Chief of the Army of the Tennessee . In December 1864 he was appointed by Ulysses S. Grant to succeed the unsuccessful Major General George Henry Thomas as Commander of the US Army in the Battle of Nashville , but was no longer able to lead it because the battle had begun, so that Major General Thomas was de facto in office stayed.

After retiring from the army, he continued his political career and was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in 1866 as a representative of the Republican Party. There he represented his home state again from March 4, 1867 to March 3, 1871 as Congressman-at-Large . During his time as a member of Parliament, he was appointed by Congress in 1868 to be one of the directors of the impeachment proceedings ( impeachment ) against US President Andrew Johnson . In May 1868 he developed the idea of Memorial Day in honor of those who died in the war for the fatherland and carried out the first celebrations on May 30, 1868.

At the end of 1870 he was elected US Senator and was a member of this as a representative of Illinois from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1877. During this time he was also Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs from 1872 to 1877 . In 1876 he ran for re-election to the Senate, but was defeated by independent candidate David Davis . He then worked as a lawyer in Chicago .

Election poster 1884

In 1879, however, he was re-elected Senator and this time held the second Senate seat (Senator Class 3) in his home state from March 4, 1879 after his re-election in 1885 until his death on December 26, 1886. Between 1881 and 1886 he was again Chairman of the Senate Committee for military affairs ( Committee on Military Affairs ).

In the presidential election of 1884 he ran for the Republican Party unsuccessfully alongside presidential candidate James G. Blaine as vice president. They were defeated by the Democrats Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks with 48.5 to 48.2 percent of the vote.

After his death, he was given the rare honor of being laid out on the Lincoln catafalk in the Capitol rotunda from December 30th to December 31st, 1886 . He was then buried in Arlington National Cemetery . He was given the honor of Logan County in Colorado , the Logan County in Kansas and the Logan County in Oklahoma named. John A. Logan was a member of the Freemasons' Association , and in 1888 a Masonic Lodge ( Logan Lodge No. 575 , Indiana) was named after him in his memory .

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Logan Freemason on freemasonsfordummies.blogspot.de; Retrieved May 3, 2013
  2. ↑ Logans Lodge on the Logans Lodge homepage 557; Retrieved May 3, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Logan, John A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Logan, John Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American major general and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Murphysboro , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1886
Place of death Washington, DC