Background
Kellogg, Frank Billings was born on December 22, 1856 in Potsdam, New York, United States. Son of Asa F. and Abigail (Billings) Kellogg.
Kellogg, Frank Billings was born on December 22, 1856 in Potsdam, New York, United States. Son of Asa F. and Abigail (Billings) Kellogg.
Went to Minnesota with parents, 1865. Common school education. Admitted to bar 1877.
Doctor of Laws, McGill University, Montreal, 1913, University of Pennsylvania, 1926, New York University, 1927, George Washington University, 1927, Carleton College, 1928, Saint Lawrence University, 1929, Harvard University, 1929, Brown University, 1930, University of Minnesota and Princeton University, 1931, Occidental University, 1931, Hamline University, 1931.
Doctor of Civil Law, Trinity College (Connecticut) and Oxford University, 1929.
City attorney, Rochester, Minnesota, 3 years. Company attorney, Olmsted Company, 5 years. Removed to Saint Paul, 1887, forming partnership with late Senator Cushman Kellogg Davis and Cordenio A. Severance as Davis, Kellogg & Severance.
Was special counsel for United States in case against the paper and Standard Oil trusts.
Special counsel for Interstate Commerce Commission in investigation of Harriman railroads, and for United States in action to dissolve United Presbyterian-South.P. merger. United States senator from Minnesota, term 1917-1923.
Member Davis, Kellogg, Severance & Morgan, 1923. Appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Great Britain, 1924.
Secretary of state in Cabinet of President Coolidge, March 4, 1925-March 4, 1929.
Member Kellogg, Morgan, Chase, Carter & Headley, since 1929. Judge of Permanent Court of International Justice, 1930-1935. Government delegate Universal Congress Lawyers and Jurists, Saint Louis, 1904.
Member Republican National Committee for Minnesota, 1904-1912.
Delegate 5th International Conference of America States, Santiago, Chile, 1923.
Member Davis, Kellogg, Severance & Morgan, 1923. Member Kellogg, Morgan, Chase, Carter & Headley, since 1929. Member Republican National Committee for Minnesota, 1904-1912.
Married Clara M. Cook, 1896.