George Washington Logan

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George Washington Logan (born February 22, 1815 in Rutherford County , North Carolina , † October 18, 1889 in Chimney Rock , North Carolina) was an American lawyer and politician .

Career

George Washington Logan, son of Martha Harton and John Logan, was born and raised in Rutherford County four days after the end of the British-American War . His father ran a hotel in Rutherfordton for a while . George Washington Logan studied law and began practicing law in Rutherfordton upon receiving his license to practice law. Early on he held a number of legal offices in the county: from 1838 to 1839 as a clerk and master on the Court of Equity , from 1841 to 1849 as a clerk on the county court, and from 1855 to 1856 as a county solicitor. Before the civil war broke out , he was promoted to brigadier general in the militia . After 1858 he published the Rutherfordton Enquirer . He ran agriculture and worked as a real estate speculator. In the 1860 census, he was listed as the owner of eleven slaves .

Logan also had a political career. He was a member of the Whig Party and was a staunch unionist during the Secession era. He remained true to his political philosophy during the Civil War as well as the rest of his political career. His opponents suspected, probably rightly, that he was a leader of the pro- Union Red Strings group, which was widespread in western North Carolina during the second half of the war. Logan was elected to the Second Confederate Congress in 1863 as a peace candidate and opponent of the administration of Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) . He did not take a leading role in the deliberations in the Confederate Congress . His voting behavior between 1864 and 1865 revealed his anti-war and anti- Confederate stance.

After the war ended, he was a delegate to the Constituent Assembly of 1865 and was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly from 1866 to 1867 . Logan was a member of the Republican Party , likely since it was founded in the state. He was viewed as a staunch partisan, first against the slave-holding aristocracy before 1865, later against the Conservative or Democratic Party, and even to some extent against his own wing of the party led by Governor William Woods Holden (1818-1892). His political mouthpiece after 1866 was the Rutherford Star, which was published by JB Carpenter.

Although Logan was occasionally run as a candidate for governor, his highest postwar office was that of Judge at the Superior Court of North Carolina, to which he was elected in 1868. During his time as a judge, he gained notoriety as an uncompromising opponent of the Ku Klux Klan , which had attacked Cleveland County , Rutherford County and other counties in the area in 1871 . Logan did everything in his power to root out the Klan. As a result, this helped his opponents to raise charges of judicial incompetence. The democratic legislature between 1871 and 1872 considered impeachment proceedings on this basis, but ultimately refused to do so. One of his enemies, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, David Schenck (1835-1902), defeated Logan when he was re-elected in 1874. He then withdrew into his private life. He bought a property in Chimney Rock, Rutherford County, where he spent the last years of his life. His body was interred in St. Francis's Episcopal Cemetery in Rutherfordton.

family

Logan was married twice. He married his first wife Dovey Amelia Wilson (1817-1851) in 1841. The couple had six children together: John Amelia, George, Robert Wilson, Georgiana, Alice Dovey and Margaret Angelina (1851-1894). After the death of his first wife, he married Mary Elizabeth Cabiness in 1854. He also had six children with his second wife: Mary Hannah (1857-1947), George Washington Jr. (1859-1946), Logan, Felix B., Frank L. and James Andrew (1868-1908).

Trivia

Logan was called Scalawag after the Civil War ended .

In the State vs. Reinhardt and Love in 1869, he found Alexander Reinhardt, an African American , and Alice Love, a white woman, not guilty of the North Carolina Marriage Act of 1838, even though they violated the prohibition of mixed marriages.

A portrait of Logan was hung in the Rutherford County Courthouse in 1926 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Schenck on the website of ncpedia.org
  2. ↑ Margaret Angelina Logan Harman in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 29, 2015.
  3. ^ Mary Hannah Logan Justice in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 29, 2015.
  4. ↑ George Washington Logan Junior in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 29, 2015.
  5. ↑ James A. Logan in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 29, 2015.
  6. ↑ Hamilton, JG de Roulhac: Reconstruction in North Carolina, p. 395
  7. ^ John Wertheimer: Law and Society in the South: A History of North Carolina Court Cases, 2009

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SURNAME Logan, George Washington
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Logan, George W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Rutherford County , North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1889
Place of death Chimney Rock , North Carolina