David Gilbert Logan known as Davie Logan, was a British Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

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 politician of Scots-Irish

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 descent. He succeeded T.P. O'Connor as member of Parliament for Liverpool Scotland in 1929, 44-years after O'Connor had been first elected.

Born in the Scotland Road

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 area of Liverpool, Logan was the son of Thomas Logan, a ship's cook, and Catherine McHugh.

He was Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Liverpool, Scotland

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 from 1929 until his death in 1964, aged 92, becoming the oldest MP since Samuel Young in 1918. Logan was a longtime associate of the previous MP T.P. O'Connor as well as himself having a strong involvement in the Irish Nationalist movement prior to joining the Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

, serving on Liverpool city council as a nationalist councillor.