BIOGRAPHY Frank Billings Kellogg Secretary of State,  Term of Appointment: 03/05/1925 to 03/28/1929

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• Born in Potsdam, New York on December 22, 1856;
• Went to Minnesota with his parents in 1865;
• Attended public schools; was admitted to the bar in 1877 and commenced practice in Rochester, Minnesota;
• City attorney of Rochester, 1878-1881
• Olmsted County attorney, 1882-1887;
• Married Clara Margaret Cook in 1886;
• Moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1887 and continued the practice of law;
• Government delegate to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and jurists at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904;
• Member of the Republican National Committee 1904-1912 and a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1904, 1908, and 1912;
• Special counsel for the Government to prosecute anti-trust suits;
• President of the American Bar Association, 1912-1913;
• Senator from Minnesota, 1917-1923;
• Delegate to the Fifth Pan American Conference in 1923;
• Served as Ambassador to Great Britain, 1923-1925;
• Secretary of State in President Coolidge's Cabinet from March 5, 1925 until March 28, 1929;
• As Secretary of State, was co-author of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact of 1928;
• Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1929;
• Resumed the practice of law in St. Paul;
• Judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice, 1930-1935;
• Died in St. Paul December 21, 1937.