William Turner Logan | |
Image Name: | WTurnerLogan.jpg |
Birth Date: | 21 June 1874 |
Birth Place: | Summerville, South Carolina |
Death Place: | Charleston, South Carolina |
Resting Place: | Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina |
State1: | South Carolina |
District1: | 1st |
Term Start1: | March 4, 1921 |
Term End1: | March 3, 1925 |
Predecessor1: | Richard S. Whaley |
Successor1: | Thomas S. McMillan |
Office2: | Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from Charleston County |
Term2: | January 8, 1901 - February 20, 1904 |
Party: | Democratic |
Profession: | lawyer |
Alma Mater: | College of Charleston University of Virginia |
Caption: | portrait of William TurnerLogan. |
William Turner Logan (June 21, 1874 – September 15, 1941) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from South Carolina from 1921 to 1925.
Born in Summerville, South Carolina, Logan attended the public schools, and was graduated from the College of Charleston, South Carolina, in 1895.
He studied law at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice in Charleston, South Carolina.
He served as member of the State house of representatives 1901-1904. He was corporation counsel of Charleston 1914-1918. He served as chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Charleston County 1916-1918. He served as chairman of the city Democratic executive committee 1918-1922 and reelected in 1922.
Logan was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1925). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1924. He was one of the 62 congressmen, and the only southerner, to vote against the Immigration Act of 1924.[1]
He continued the practice of his profession in Charleston, South Carolina, until his death there on September 15, 1941. He was interred in Magnolia Cemetery.