James Logan was a Scots-Irish colonial American statesman, administrator, and scholar who served as the fourteenth mayor of Philadelphia and held a number of other public offices.
An illustration of Logan and his signature, c. 1740
A present-day plaque honoring Logan in the city of his birth, in Lurgan, in Northern Ireland
James Logan, engraving
The mayor of Philadelphia is the chief executive of the government of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
as stipulated by the Charter of the City of Philadelphia. The current mayor of Philadelphia is Cherelle Parker, who is the first woman to hold the position.
Mayor of Philadelphia
Image: John Morin Scott, 1789 1858.(page 242 crop)
Image: Albrect Bernhard Uhle (1847 1930), Portrait of Peter Mc Call (1809 1880) (cropped)
Image: Robert T. Conrad