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Frank Billings Kellogg (December 22, 1856December 21, 1937) was an American politician and statesman. He was born in Potsdam, New York, and his family moved to Minnesota in 1865. He began practicing law in Rochester, Minnesota in 1877. He was city attorney of Rochester 18781881 and county attorney for Olmsted County, Minnesota 18821887. He moved to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1887.


Kellogg was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate from Minnesota and served from March 4, 1917 to March 3, 1923. He lost his re-election bid in 1922. He was a delegate to the Fifth International Conference of American States at Santiago, Chile in 1923, and served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Britain from 1923 to 1925, when he resigned.


He was United States Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Calvin Coolidge 19251929. As Secretary of State, he coauthored the Kellogg-Briand Pact signed in 1928. He was associate judge of the Permanent Court for International Justice from 1930 to 1935. Kellogg was awarded the 1929 Nobel Peace Prize. He died in St. Paul.



Preceded by:
Charles Evans Hughes
United States Secretary of State Succeeded by:
Henry L. Stimson
Preceded by:
Moses E. Clapp
Minnesota Congressional Delegations Succeeded by:
Henrik Shipstead

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Frank B. Kellogg - Biography (1269 words)
Frank Kellogg was born in Potsdam, N.Y., but the Kellogg family, becoming part of the westward movement which gripped the country at the end of the Civil War in 1865, settled eventually on a wheat farm in Elgin, Olmsted County, Minnesota.
Kellogg was a member of the National Committee of the Republican Party from 1904 to 1912 and a delegate to its national conventions in 1904, 1908, and 1912.
Kellogg did not lose faith in the validity of the Pact in his remaining eight years of life even though it was characterized by one senator as an «international kiss» and was broken by armed conflict in Manchuria within months of its proclamation.
Frank B. Kellogg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (204 words)
Frank Billings Kellogg (December 22, 1856 – December 21, 1937) was an American politician and statesman.
Kellogg was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate from Minnesota and served from March 4, 1917 to March 3, 1923.
He was a delegate to the Fifth International Conference of American States at Santiago, Chile in 1923, and served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Britain from 1923 to 1925.
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