Biography:

John Alexander Logan was a lawyer, Republican politician and soldier.
Logan was born in 1826 in Illinois.  He fought in the Mexican War as a lieutenant and later became a lawyer.  In 1852, he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives and later, in 1859, to the United States House of Representatives.  He served until 1862 and then joined the Union Army.  He served as a brigadier general and was later appointed major general of Volunteers.  He became a US Senator and served from 1871 to 1877 and 1879 to 1886.  In 1884, he became James Blaine’s vice presidential running mate and lost the election to the Democrats Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks.  Logan died two years later and is buried in Washington, D.C.