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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MinnesotaFrank Billings KELLOGG
(1856-1937)
Senate Years of Service:
1917-1923Party: RepublicanKELLOGG, Frank Billings, a
Senator from Minnesota; born in Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, N.Y.,
December 22, 1856; in 1865 moved with his parents to Minnesota;
attended the public and rural schools; worked on the farm until
1875 and then studied law in Rochester, Minn.; admitted to the bar
in 1877 and commenced practice in Rochester, Minn.; city attorney
of Rochester 1878-1881; county attorney for Olmsted County
1882-1887; moved to St. Paul, Minn., in 1887 and resumed the
practice of law; member of the Republican National Committee
1904-1912; special counsel for the Government to prosecute
antitrust suits; president of the American Bar Association in 1912
and 1913; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and
served from March 4, 1917, to March 3, 1923; unsuccessful candidate
for reelection in 1922; chairman, Committee on National Banks
(Sixty-sixth Congress); delegate to the Fifth International
Conference of American States, Santiago, Chile, 1923; Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Great Britain 1923-1925, when
he resigned; Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Calvin
Coolidge 1925-1929; coauthor of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact
signed in 1928; resumed the practice of law in St. Paul, Minn.;
associate judge of the Permanent Court for International Justice
1930-1935; awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1929; died in St.
Paul, Minn., December 21, 1937; interment in the Chapel of St.
Joseph of Arimathea in Washington National Cathedral, Washington,
D.C.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Bryn-Jones, David.
Frank B. Kellogg, A Biography. New York: G.P. Putnam’s
Sons, 1937; Kellog, Frank B. Frank B. Kellog Papers. Edited
by Deborah Kahn Neubeck. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society,
1977-1978. Microfilm: 54 reels and guide.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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