John Logan Chipman was a politician from the U.S. state

U.S. state

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 of Michigan

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, serving as United States Representative to Congress.

Logan was born in Detroit, Michigan

Detroit, Michigan

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, the grandson of Nathaniel Chipman

Nathaniel Chipman

Nathaniel Chipman was a United States Senator from Vermont, and Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court....

, a U.S. Senator from Vermont

Vermont

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. He attended the public schools of Detroit and the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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 at Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, Michigan

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, 1843-1845. He engaged in the Lake Superior

Lake Superior

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 region as explorer for the Montreal Mining Co. in 1846 and was assistant clerk of the Michigan House of Representatives in 1853. He studied law and was admitted to the bar

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 in 1854, practicing in the Lake Superior region. He returned to Detroit and was city attorney

City attorney

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 from 1857 to 1860.

In 1865 and 1866, he was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives representing the First District of Wayne County

Wayne County, Michigan

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. In 1866, he ran as the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

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 from Michigan's 1st congressional district

Michigan's 1st congressional district

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, losing in the general election to Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 incumbent Fernando C. Beaman

Fernando C. Beaman

Fernando Cortez Beaman was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan during and after the American Civil War....

.

He was attorney of the police board of Detroit from 1867 to 1879, and was elected judge of the superior court

Superior court

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 of Detroit on May 1, 1879; he was reelected in 1885 and served until he resigned in 1887. In 1886, he had been elected to the Fiftieth Congress and was re-elected to the three succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1887, until his death in Detroit, 1893. He is interred at Elmwood Cemetery

Elmwood Cemetery (Detroit, Michigan)

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in Detroit.