Logan was a senator from Illinois and was a Republican. He served from 1885 to 1887.
He was previously a senator from Illinois as a Republican from 1879 to 1885; a senator from Illinois as a Republican from 1871 to 1877; the representative for Illinois as a Republican from 1867 to 1871; the representative for Illinois’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1861 to 1863; and the representative for Illinois’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1859 to 1861.
![Photo of Sen. John Logan [R-IL, 1885-1887]](/static/legislator-photos/406894-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1871 to Dec 1886, Logan missed 1,593 of 3,967 roll call votes, which is 40.2%. This is worse than the median of 30.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1886. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
