James Washington Logue

Who was James Washington Logue?

James Washington Logue was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

J. Washington Logue was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from La Salle College 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 the First World War. He served as secretary of the board of inspectors of the Eastern Penitentiary in 1923. He died in Philadelphia. Interment in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.