Frank B. Kellogg

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Frank B. Kellogg

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.

He was United States Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Calvin Coolidge 19251929. In 1928, he was awarded the Freedom of Dublin City in Ireland. 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
1925 – 1929
Succeeded by:
Henry L. Stimson
Preceded by:
Moses E. Clapp
United States Senator from Minnesota
1917 – 1923
Succeeded by:
Henrik Shipstead
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