Frank B. Kellogg

Infobox US Cabinet official
name=Frank Billings Kellogg

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image_width=200px
order=45th
title=United States Secretary of State
term_start=March 5, 1925
term_end=March 28, 1929
predecessor=Charles Evans Hughes
successor=Henry L. Stimson
birth_date=birth date|1856|12|22|mf=y
birth_place=Potsdam, New York, U.S.
death_date=death date and age|1937|12|21|1856|12|22
death_place=St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
party=Republican
spouse=
profession=Politician, Lawyer
religion=

Frank Billings Kellogg (December 22, 1856 – December 21, 1937) was an American lawyer, politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of State. He co-authored the Kellogg-Briand Pact, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1929.

Biography

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 1878 – 1881 and county attorney for Olmsted County, Minnesota, from 1882 – 1887. He moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1887.

Kellogg was a self-trained lawyer. During the early 1900s, Theodore Roosevelt appointed Kellogg as a prosecutor in the Justice Department. His most important case was "Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States", 221 U.S. 1 (1911). Following this successful prosecution, he was elected president of the American Bar Association (1912-1913).

Kellogg was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate from Minnesota in 1916 and served from March 4, 1917 to March 3, 1923 in the 65th, 66th, and 67th Congresses. During the ratification battle for the Treaty of Versailles, he was one of the few Republicans who supported ratification. 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 1925 – 1929. In 1928, he was awarded the Freedom of the City in Dublin, Ireland and in 1929 the government of France made him a member of the Legion of Honor.

As Secretary of State, he was responsible for improving US-Mexican relations and helping to resolve the long-standing Tacna-Arica controversy between Peru and Chile. His most significant accomplishment however was the Kellogg-Briand Pact, signed in 1928. Proposed by its other namesake, French foreign minister Aristide Briand, the treaty intended to provide for "the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy." He was awarded the 1929 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition.

He was associate judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice from 1930 to 1935. In 1937, he endowed the Kellogg Foundation for Education in International Relations at Carleton College where he was a trustee. He died from pneumonia, following a stroke, on the eve of his 81st birthday in St. Paul.

His house in St. Paul, the Frank B. Kellogg House was listed as a National Historic Landmark in 1976.cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1447&ResourceType=Building
title=Frank B. Kellogg House|accessdate=2008-01-08|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]

Kellogg Boulevard in downtown Saint Paul is also named for him.cite book |last=Millett |first=Larry |authorlink=Larry Millett |title=AIA Guide to the Twin Cities: The Essential Source on the Architecture of Minneapolis and St. Paul |year=2007 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press |location= |isbn=0-87351-540-4 |pages=142 ]

Kellogg Middle School in Shoreline, Washington and Rochester, Minnesota are named in his honor.Fact|date=January 2008

A Liberty ship, the , was named in his honor.

Bibliography

by Kellogg

"China's Outstanding Problems". (1925)

About Kellogg

Bryn-Jones, David. "Frank B. Kellogg: A Biography". New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1937. (Reprinted in 2007: ISBN 978-1-4325-8982-0)

Ellis, Lewis Ethan. "Frank B. Kellogg and American foreign relations, 1925-1929". New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1961.

Ferrell, Robert H. "Frank B. Kellogg & Henry L. Stimson: The American Secretaries of State and their diplomacy". Cooper Square Publishers, 1963.

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