Logan Holt Roots
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Logan Holt Roots was a member of the US House of Representatives from Arkansas. He was born near Tamaroa, Illinois on March 26, 1841. He completed preparatory studies and was graduated from the Illinois State Normal University in 1862. Roots assisted in recruiting the Eighty-first Illinois Volunteers and served in the Army until the close of the Civil War. He settled in Arkansas and engaged in planting and trading following the conclusion of the conflict. Upon the readmission of Arkansas to representation, he was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress. Roots was reelected to the Forty-first Congress and served from June 22, 1868, to March 3, 1871. However, he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress. Roots served as president of the First National Bank of Little Rock until his death in that city May 30, 1893; interment in Oakland Cemetery.
