Stephen Trigg Logan (February 24, 1800 – July 17, 1880) was an American lawyer and politician. He practiced law with

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation thro ...

from 1841 to 1843. He served as Illinois circuit court judge and in 1847 was elected to the Illinois Constitutional Convention. He also served in the

Illinois House of Representatives The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly. The body was created by the first Illinois Constitution adopted in 1818. The House under the current constitution as amended in 1980 consists of 118 re ...

. Logan's son,

David David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

was a politician in

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, serving as mayor of

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. Stephen Trigg Logan was a close friend and associate of Illinois industrialists and financiers

Jacob Bunn :''This article concerns John Whitfield Bunn, Jacob Bunn, and the entrepreneurs who were interconnected with the Bunn brothers through association or familial and genealogical connection.'' John Whitfield Bunn (June 21, 1831 – June 7, 1920)Ill ...

and John Whitfield Bunn, who, at Logan's suggestion, helped Logan and others fund the 1860 presidential campaign of

.Jesse William Weik, The Real Lincoln: a portrait (1922), P. 283 (See: Google Books) His maternal grandfather was American pioneer

Stephen Trigg Stephen Trigg (Wiktionary:circa, c. 1744 – August 19, 1782) was an American pioneer and soldier from Virginia. He was killed ten months after the Siege of Yorktown, surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in one of the last battles of the Amer ...

and his paternal grandfather was John Logan, who was elected the first treasurer of the state of

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. His daughter Sally was the second wife of

Ward Hill Lamon Ward Hill Lamon (January 6, 1828 – May 7, 1893) was a personal friend and self-appointed bodyguard of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Lamon was famously absent the night Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865, having bee ...

, another former Lincoln law partner who later served as his primary bodyguard during the

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* * 1800 births 1880 deaths Politicians from Springfield, Illinois Illinois lawyers Illinois state court judges Republican Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois {{Illinois-Ilrepresentative-stub