Henry Logan (April 14, 1784 – December 26, 1866) was an American politician from

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who served as a Democratic member of the

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for

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from 1835 to 1839. Henry Logan was born near

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. He volunteered for the defense of

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in 1814 during the

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, and served as captain in the Nineteenth Regiment, Second Brigade, Fifth Division,

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. He was commissioned lieutenant colonel August 1, 1814. He served as a member of the

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from 1818 and 1819 and as a member of the

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for the 14th district from 1828 to 1830. Logan was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a

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to the Twenty-fifth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination and resumed farming. He was a member of the Board of Commissioners of

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, in 1840. He served as county auditor and died on the Logania plantation in Monaghan Township, near Dillsburg in 1866. Interment in the Dillsburg Cemetery in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania.

Legacy

The town

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was named after him.

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