Daniel Kellogg (judge)

Daniel Kellogg (February 10, 1791 – May 10, 1875) was an American public official who served as a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and in several other positions.

Daniel Kellogg was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on February 10, 1791. He graduated from Williams College in 1810, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Rockingham, Vermont in 1814.

A Democratic-Republican and later a Democrat, Kellogg served as Windham County State's Attorney and Judge of Probate. He also served as Secretary to Governors Cornelius P. Van Ness (1823-1826) and Ezra Butler (1826-1828).

Having been active as officer in the Vermont Militia, Kellogg was appointed Adjutant General, and served from 1822 to 1824.

In 1829 President Andrew Jackson appointed Kellogg as United States Attorney for the District of Vermont and he served until the end of the Martin Van Buren administration in 1841. Kellogg also ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 1833 and 1840.

Kellogg served as President of the Vermont Constitutional Convention in 1843. He declined appointment to the Vermont Supreme Court in the same year, and also ran unsuccessfully for Governor, losing the election to .

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