Frank B. Kellogg
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| 45th United States Secretary of State | |
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In office March 5, 1925 – March 28, 1929 |
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| President |
Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover |
| Preceded by | Charles Evans Hughes |
| Succeeded by | Henry L. Stimson |
| United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom | |
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In office January 14, 1924 – February 10, 1925 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| President | Calvin Coolidge |
| Prime Minister |
Stanley Baldwin Ramsay MacDonald Stanley Baldwin |
| Preceded by | George B. M. Harvey |
| Succeeded by | Alanson B. Houghton |
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United States Senator from Minnesota |
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In office March 4, 1917 – March 4, 1923 |
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| Preceded by | Moses E. Clapp |
| Succeeded by | Henrik Shipstead |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Frank Billings Kellogg December 22, 1856 Potsdam, New York |
| Died | December 21, 1937 (aged 80) St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Political party | Republican |
| Profession | Politician, Lawyer |
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Frank Billings Kellogg (December 22, 1856 – December 21, 1937) was an American lawyer, politician and 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.
Kellogg was born in Potsdam, New York on December 22, 1856. His family moved to Minnesota in 1865. Kellogg was a self-trained lawyer. 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 to 1887. He moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1886.
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).
Kellogg was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate from Minnesota in 1916 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. 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 1924 to 1925.
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