George Logan

This article is about US Senator George Logan. Another name bearer can be found under George Washington Logan .

George Logan

George Logan (born September 9, 1753 in Philadelphia County , Province of Pennsylvania , †  April 9, 1821 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) was an American politician ( Democratic Republican Party ) who represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US Senate .

George Logan was born on Stenton, his family's estate near Philadelphia. He was sent to England for his education ; after his return to America he was apprenticed to a merchant. In 1779 he graduated from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland with a medical degree. He then worked in the field of agricultural sciences .

Logan held his first political mandate shortly after the end of the Revolutionary War , when he was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1785 to 1789 . In this parliamentary chamber he sat again from 1795 to 1796 and in 1799. He was sent on an unofficial mission to France in 1798 , where he conducted negotiations that should result in better relations between the two countries. The news of Logan's activities also led to the ratification of the Logan Act , a law prohibiting American citizens from negotiating with foreign powers without government approval.

After the resignation of US Senator Peter Muhlenberg , George Logan was appointed as his successor by Governor Thomas McKean . He took up his mandate in Congress from July 13, 1801 and, after a successful election, remained in this Chamber of Parliament until March 3, 1807. He decided against re-election. Notwithstanding the law named after him, Logan traveled to Britain on a private diplomatic mission in 1810 to prevent an impending war. It was again unsuccessful: two years later the British-American War broke out. The Logan Act , however, was not applied to him. He spent his retirement writing several agricultural papers and died on April 9, 1821 on the Stenton estate. He was buried in the family cemetery in Philadelphia.

Web links

• George Logan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George Logan in the database of Find a Grave (English)