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Lt. Presley N. O'Bannon, USMC, became the first American to raise the nation's flag on foreign soil on April 27, 1805, when Barbary coast pirates holding 180 American seamen for ransom were overcome in an attack he led. He came to Logan County in 1807, served in the state legislature in 1812, 1817, 1820-21, and in the Senate from 1824-26, died in 1850, and his remains were moved to Frankfort in 1919.
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