William Turner LOGAN, Congress, SC (1874-1941)

LOGAN William Turner , a Representative from South Carolina; born in Summerville, Dorchester County, S.C., June 21, 1874; attended the public schools, and was graduated from the College of Charleston, South Carolina, in 1895; studied law at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.; was admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice in Charleston, S.C.; member of the State house of representatives 1901-1904; corporation counsel of Charleston 1914-1918; chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Charleston County 1916-1918; chairman of the city Democratic executive committee 1918-1922 and reelected in 1922; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1925); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1924; continued the practice of his profession in Charleston, S.C., until his death in that city on September 15, 1941; interment in Magnolia Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present