George Logan
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- For others with similar names, see George Logan (disambiguation).
George Logan (September 9, 1753–April 9, 1821) was an American physician, farmer, and politician from Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. He served in the state legislature and represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate. He was a founder of the Democratic-Republican Societies in 1793.
In 1798, he went to Paris to negotiate peace with the French to settle the Quasi-War. On his return, he found he had been denounced by the Federalists, who had passed the "Logan Act", which made it a crime for an individual citizen to interfere in a dispute between the United States and a foreign country.
He was the grandson of James Logan, secretary of William Penn.
[edit] External links
- Biographic sketch at U.S. Congress website
- Biographical sketch at FamousAmericans.net (under his grandfather, James Logan)
| Preceded by: J. Peter Muhlenberg |
U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania 1801–1807 |
Succeeded by: Andrew Gregg |
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