William Logan (Kentuckian)

William Logan


United States Senator from Kentucky
In office March 4, 1819 – May 28, 1820
Preceded by	Isham Talbot
Succeeded by	Isham Talbot
Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives
In office 1803-1806 1808
Personal details
Born	(1776-12-08)December 8, 1776 Harrodsburg, Kentucky
Died	August 8, 1822(1822-08-08) (aged 45) Shelby County, Kentucky
Political party	Democratic-Republican

William Logan (December 8, 1776 – August 8, 1822) was a United States Senator from Kentucky.

Born within the fort at Harrodsburg, Logan spent his early childhood in St. Asaphs Fort, receiving private instruction from his parents and tutors. He moved to Shelby County about 1798. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced. He was delegate to Kentucky's constitutional convention in 1799 and worked as a state commissioner in siting the new Barren County's seat of government (at Glasgow, a new settlement probably named for the Scottish hometown of Logan's father^[1]) the same year.

Logan was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1803 to 1806 and again in 1808, and served as speaker two terms. He was a judge of the court of appeals from 1808 to 1812. He was also a presidential elector in 1808, 1812, and 1816. Logan was elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1819 to May 28, 1820 when he resigned to run for Governor in 1820. (He did not succeed, instead serving as a commissioner of the Kentucky River Company.) Logan died at his residence in Shelby County and was interred in the Logan family burial ground near Shelbyville.

References

↑ Rennick, Robert M. (1987). Kentucky Place Names. University Press of Kentucky. p. 116. Retrieved 28 Apr 2013.

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United States Senate
Preceded by Isham Talbot	U.S. Senator (Class 3) from Kentucky 1819–1820 Served alongside: Richard M. Johnson	Succeeded by Isham Talbot

United States Senators from Kentucky

Class 2	Brown Thruston Clay Bibb Walker Barry Hardin Crittenden Johnson Bibb Crittenden Morehead J. Underwood Thompson Powell Guthrie McCreery Stevenson Beck Carlisle Lindsay Blackburn Paynter James Martin Stanley Sackett Robsion Williamson M. Logan Chandler Stanfill Cooper Chapman T. Underwood Cooper Barkley Humphreys Cooper Huddleston McConnell

Class 3	Edwards Marshall J. Breckinridge Adair Clay Pope Bledsoe Talbot W. Logan Talbot Rowan Clay Crittenden Metcalfe Clay Meriwether Dixon Crittenden J. C. Breckinridge Davis Machen McCreery Williams Blackburn Deboe McCreary Bradley Camden Beckham Ernst Barkley Withers Clements Morton Cook Ford Bunning Paul

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 17020108 LCCN: no2007155984 US Congress: L000405

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