Frank B. Kellogg

About Frank B. Kellogg

Who is it?: Lawyer, Politician
Birth Day: December 22, 1856
Birth Place: Potsdam, United States
Died On: December 21, 1937(1937-12-21) (aged 80)\nSt. Paul, Minnesota
Birth Sign: Capricorn
President: Calvin Coolidge
Preceded by: Moses E. Clapp
Succeeded by: Henrik Shipstead
Monarch: George V
Prime Minister: Stanley Baldwin Ramsay MacDonald Stanley Baldwin
Political party: Republican
Spouse(s): Clara M. Cook
Profession: Politician, Lawyer
Awards: Legion of Honour

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Frank B. Kellogg was born on December 22, 1856 in Potsdam, United States, is Lawyer, Politician. Frank Billing Kellogg was a renowned American lawyer, politician, and statesman who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1929, for his contribution in the Kellogg-Briand Pact. He was the eldest son of a poor farmer and because of his father’s illness much of his childhood was spent working in the family’s wheat farm. Consequently, he had very little formal education. However, his penchant for knowledge and his desire to rise above the poverty made him study on his own. Although he was a self-taught lawyer, he was appointed as the City Attorney by the City Council of Rochester, within a year of his registration at the city bar. Later, he became the President of American Bar Council. For his crusade against business trusts he became famous as ‘trustbuster’. He was equally successful as a Senator and a statesman. Signing of the ‘Paris Pact’, popularly known as ‘Kellogg-Briand Pact’, was the greatest achievement of his life. Although it had few loopholes, it was the first honest attempt to rule out war as national policy. In 1929, Kellogg received Nobel Peace Prize for his role in drafting as well as signing of this pact.
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Biography/Timeline

1856

Kellogg was born in Potsdam, New York on December 22, 1856. His family moved to Minnesota in 1865.

1877

Kellogg was a self-trained Lawyer who began practicing law in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1877. He served as city attorney of Rochester 1878–1881 and county attorney for Olmsted County, Minnesota, from 1882 to 1887. He moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1886.

1880

In 1880, he became a member of the masonic lodge Rochester No. 21 where he received the degrees of freemasonry on April 1, April 19, and May 3.

1886

In 1886, Kellogg was married to Clara May Cook (1861–1942), the daughter of George Clinton Cook (1828–1901) and Elizabeth (née Burns) Cook (1838–1908).

1905

In 1905, Kellogg joined the federal government when Theodore Roosevelt asked Kellogg to prosecute a federal antitrust case. In 1906, Kellogg was appointed special counsel to the Interstate Commerce Commission for its investigation of E. H. Harriman. In 1908, he was appointed to lead the federal prosecution against Union Pacific Railroad, under the Sherman Antitrust Act. 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).

1907

In 1907 he was elected as a Compatriot of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.

1917

In 1916, Kellogg was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate from Minnesota and served from March 4, 1917 to March 4, 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 and, in 1923, he was a delegate to the Fifth International Conference of American States at Santiago, Chile.

1924

In 1924, he was appointed by President Calvin Coolidge as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Great Britain, serving from January 14, 1924 to February 10, 1925. He succeeded George Brinton McClellan Harvey who served under Warren G. Harding and was succeeded by Alanson B. Houghton so that Kellogg could assume the role of Secretary of State.

1925

From 1925 until 1929, he served as the United States Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Coolidge. 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 Honour.

1930

He was associate judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice from 1930 to 1935.

1937

In 1937, he endowed the Kellogg Foundation for Education in International Relations at Carleton College, where he was a trustee. His house in St. Paul, the Frank B. Kellogg House was listed as a National Historic Landmark in 1976.

1981

He died from pneumonia, following a stroke, on the eve of his 81st birthday in St. Paul. He was buried at the Chapel of St. Joseph of Arimathea in Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

2013

As Secretary of State, he was responsible for improving U.S.–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.