Logan Holt Roots

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Logan Holt Roots

Logan Holt Roots (born March 26, 1841 in Tamaroa , Perry County , Illinois , † May 20, 1893 in Little Rock , Arkansas ) was an American politician . Between 1868 and 1871 he represented the first constituency of the state of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Logan Roots attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1862 the Illinois State Normal University . At the beginning of the Civil War he helped set up a volunteer regiment from Illinois. During the war he served as a soldier in the Union Army .

After the war, Roots moved to Arkansas, where he worked as a planter and trader. Politically, he joined the Republican Party . After the resumption of the state of Arkansas in the United States, he was elected as its candidate in the first district of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives in Washington . There he took the seat on June 22, 1868, which Thomas Carmichael Hindman had left in 1861. After he was confirmed in his mandate in the regular congressional elections of 1868, Roots could remain in Congress until March 3, 1871 . In the elections of 1870 he was defeated by the Democrat James M. Hanks .

After his tenure in Congress, Logan Roots became president of the First National Bank of Little Rock , Arkansas. He held this office until his death on May 30, 1893.

Web links

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