David Logan (Oregon politician)
David Logan | |
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| 14th Mayor of Portland, Oregon | |
| In office 1863–1864 | |
| Preceded by | William H. Farrar |
| Succeeded by | Henry Failing |
| Member of the Oregon Territorial Legislature | |
| In office 1854–1854 | |
| Constituency | Washington County |
| Member of the Oregon Constitutional Convention | |
| In office 1857–1857 | |
| Constituency | Multnomah County |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 5, 1824 Kentucky |
| Died | March 26, 1874 (aged 49) Yamhill County, Oregon |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Mary Porter Waldo |
| Relations | Stephen T. Logan |
David Logan (April 5, 1824 – March 26, 1874) was an American attorney and politician in the territory of and later state of Oregon. A native of Illinois, he moved to Oregon in 1850 where he served in the Oregon Territorial Legislature and in the Oregon Constitutional Convention. A founder of the Oregon Republican Party, he also served as mayor of Portland.
Early life
[edit]David Logan was born in the state of Kentucky on April 5, 1824.[1] The family later moved to the town of Springfield, Illinois.[2] His father, Stephen T. Logan, practiced law as a partner with Abraham Lincoln in Springfield.[2][3] David Logan studied law in Springfield under his father and Lincoln passing the bar in 1844 in Sangamon County.[4][5] An anti-Democrat and Whig politically, Logan was to become a partner with Lincoln and his father in their practice before his drinking led to a falling out with his father.[4] Due to this falling out, Logan's father sent him to join the army and fight in the Mexican–American War.[4] David Logan also briefly moved to California. After Logan returned from the war, his father sent him to Oregon.[4]
In 1850, Logan arrived in what was then the Oregon Territory and set up a law practice in Lafayette.[2] He moved to Portland soon after and continued practicing law.[2] The next year he ran for representative office in the Oregon Territorial Legislature for Yamhill County, but lost to Matthew P. Deady.[4] Logan and Deady would have a long-running feud, Logan's drunkenness would continue to plague him, and further troubles included accusations of the rape of a Native American girl.[4] On January 20, 1852, he represented the United States in a customs dispute with the Hudson's Bay Company at a court in Olympia, which was still part of the Oregon Territory at that time.[6]
Political career
[edit]In June 1854, Logan was elected to the Oregon Territorial Legislature to represent Washington County, which at that time included Portland and part of what later that year became Multnomah County.[7] In 1857, he was elected to represent Multnomah County at the Oregon Constitutional Convention.[1] Held from August to September in Salem, Logan was on the Judicial Department Committee.[1] Though he voted against the adoption of the Oregon Constitution, the document was approved and became effective upon statehood on February 14, 1859.[1] He also helped found the Oregon Republican Party.[2]
Upon statehood, Logan stood as the new Republican Party's candidate for the state's seat in the House of Representatives.[5] He lost in both 1859 and 1860 to Lansing Stout.[5] Logan was elected as the Mayor of Portland on April 6, 1863, and served until April 1864 when Henry Failing was elected to the office.[8] In 1868, he ran for Oregon's seat in Congress as the Republican nominee, losing to Joseph Showalter Smith.[9]
Later years
[edit]In 1862, he married Mary Porter Waldo; they had no children.[2] Logan entered a partnership with Erasmus D. Shattuck in 1857, and remained a partner until 1874.[9][10] In 1871, he partly retired to a farm in Yamhill County.[2] On March 26, 1874, David Logan died in Yamhill County at the age of 49.[1] He was called the "greatest jury lawyer of his time".[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Biographical Sketch of David Logan". Crafting the Oregon Constitution. Oregon State Archives. 2009. Archived from the original on July 1, 2022. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Corning, Howard M. (1989) Dictionary of Oregon History. Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 151.
- ^ Stephen T. Logan. Archived 2010-07-09 at the Wayback Machine Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, Northern Illinois University, 2002. Retrieved on December 31, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f Johnson, David Alan (1992). Founding the Far West: California, Oregon, and Nevada, 1840–1890. University of California Press. pp. 167–172. ISBN 0-520-07348-7.
- ^ a b c Carey, Charles Henry (1922). History of Oregon. The Pioneer Historical Publishing Company. pp. 631.
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- ^ Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1890). The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Vol. 31 (History of Washington, Idaho and Montana: 1845–1889 ed.). A. L. Bancroft & Company, History Co. p. 55.
- ^ Williams, George H. (1901). "Political History of Oregon from 1853 to 1865". Oregon Historical Quarterly. 2. Salem, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society: 9.
- ^ Mayors of Portland. City of Portland. Retrieved on December 31, 2008.
- ^ a b Gaston, Joseph. (1911). Portland, Oregon, its history and builders: in connection with the antecedent explorations, discoveries, and movements of the pioneers that selected the site for the great city of the Pacific. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co. pp. 412, 587.
- ^ Hodgkin, F. E.; J. J. Galvin (1882). Pen Pictures of Representative Men of Oregon. Farmer and Dairyman Pub. House, Portland. p. 158.
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