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Frank Billings Kellogg Secretary of State, Term of Appointment:
03/05/1925 to
03/28/1929
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Travels
- 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.
Released on July 15, 2003
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