John Lee Logan

Logan was born in Salem, Virginia, on March 5, 1848, the son of James W. and Sarah (née Strother) Logan, the latter a descendant of Alexander Spotswood, John Rolfe, and Pocahontas. He attended the Virginia Military Institute, but dropped out to join a cavalry regiment of the Confederate Army. He read law under his future father-in-law, John Randolph Tucker, in Richmond, Virginia, from 1868 to 1870, and was admitted to the bar in 1869. He moved to New York City, and served as a law clerk from 1870 to 1873 before opening his own practice. He married Gertrude Powell Tucker, in 1883. They would have no children.^[1][2][3] He was active in local Democratic politics in the 1870s.^[4]

On March 5, 1888, President Grover Cleveland nominated Logan as Associate Justice of the Idaho Territorial Supreme Court, and he was confirmed by the senate on April 12, 1888.^[5] He accepted the position with hope that it would improve his failing health.^[3] His health continued to deteriorate in the Idaho Territory, leading President Benjamin Harrison to remove Logan, replacing him with Willis Sweet in November 1889.^[6][7] Logan died soon after in Lewiston, Idaho Territory, on January 15, 1890.^[8]