James Washington Logue

J. Washington Logue, Pennsylvania Congressman.

James Washington Logue (February 22, 1863 – August 27, 1925) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

J. Washington Logue was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from La Salle University in Philadelphia. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1888 and commenced the practice of his profession in Philadelphia.

Logue was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania in 1918. He resumed the practice of law in Philadelphia, and was a member of the speakers’ bureau of the Council of National Defense during World War I. He served as secretary of the board of inspectors of the Eastern Penitentiary in 1923. He died in Philadelphia. Interment in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.

Sources

• United States Congress. "J. Washington Logue (id: L000407)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 
• The Political Graveyard
• James Washington Logue at Find a Grave