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Logan is a city in Logan County, West Virginia, United States, along the Guyandotte River. The population was 1,438 at the 2020 census. [ 2 ] It is the county seat of Logan County.
Logan County has been notorious for over a century for political machines that control virtually all aspects of elected office. Allies of candidate John F. Kennedy once famously asked local political boss Raymond Chafin how much money he wanted so that Kennedy could carry southern West Virginia in the 1960 presidential election, and Chafin replied "thirty five," meaning $3,500.
Logan was the only county in West Virginia to be carried by George McGovern in his lackluster 1972 campaign, and between 1976 and 2000 no Republican reached 40 percent of the county's vote. From 2000 to 2016, the county swung more Republican in each consecutive election, due to the Democratic Party's support for environmentalist policies. [ 17 ]
Man is a town in Logan County, West Virginia, United States.The population was 772 at the 2020 census. [6] The town is located along the Guyandotte River at the mouth of Buffalo Creek, [7] which was the site of the 1972 Buffalo Creek Flood following a dam collapse.
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The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
West Logan is a town along the Guyandotte River in Logan County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 400 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] For unknown reasons, some sources report West Logan to lay west of the county seat at Logan , attributing to this fact the name.
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