Career
Born in the Scotland Road area of Liverpool, Logan was the son of Thomas Logan, a ship"s cook, and Catherine McHugh. Logan was later surpassed by South. O. Davies, who died in office aged 92. Logan was a longtime associate of the previous Member of Parliament T.P. O"Connor as well as himself having a strong involvement in the Irish Nationalist movement prior to joining the Labour Party, serving on Liverpool city council as a nationalist councillor.
He was elected for the Scotland ward from 1909 to 1911 then served as Scotland North from 1911-1918 as a Nationalist councillor then taking the Labour whip.
He served till 1931 before becoming an Alderman and leader of Liverpool Labour party from 1942-1951.