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William Pitt Kellogg descended from Joseph Kellogg who settled at Farmington, Connecticut, about 1651, and the son of the Reverend Sherman and Rebecca (Eaton) Kellogg. He was born on December 8, 1830 in Orwell, Vermont, United States.
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Excerpt from Inaugural Address of Governor Wm; Pitt Kellogg: To the General Assembly of Louisiana; January 13, 1873 A retrospect of the history of Louisiana during the few years that have elapsed since the termination of the late civil war presents much that afi'ords no gratification to the minds of her people. It is not to be concealed that no effective means have been adopted to supply the greatest needs of the people, or to restore the State to its legitimate condition of progress and prosperity. Possessing abundantly all the elements necessary to insure agricultural and commercial wealth and independence, the State, nevertheless, languishes in all her material interests. With impaired credit, diminished commerce, and accumulated taxation, the embarrass ments are serious and call loudly for relief. Immigration to our borders has been slow and inconsiderable, notwithstanding all the advantages of soil, climate, staple products, cheap lands and facilities for commerce. Our great mart of com merce, the natural outlet of trade from the vast valley of the Mississippi to all countries of the earth, is weakened in its capacity to control its legitimate business, and is forced into competition with cities of the interior less favorably situated for commercial competition, yet more blessed with material prosperity. Capital from abroad is but sparingly introduced here, where, under favora ble circumstances, it would be highly remunerative to its holders and would be freely supplied. With these facts palpably before us,to what shall we attribute our stationary, if not retrograding condi tion? Political agitation may, and doubtless has, contributed in no small degree to this state of affairs, but this can by no means be assigned as the principal cause. The question forces itself upon us, have the resources of Louisiana been properly marshaled and her energies judiciously directed? A negative answer, I think, must be given. Improvident and unwise legislation - not to characterize some of it by more forcible terms - has been chiefly instrumental in involving the State in its present financial embar rassments. What are the remedies to be resorted to? They are plain and obvious. Rigid economy in expenditures, the abolition of useless ofices, a strict accountability enforced against all public agents; in short, the adoption in the administration of public afl'airs of the same appliances necessary to restore the fallen for tunes of an individual honesty, industry and economy. Upon these principles the people of the State demand, and they have the right to expect, their public servants to act. This demand, so far as the executive department and its influence extends, will be, strictly complied with. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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William Pitt Kellogg descended from Joseph Kellogg who settled at Farmington, Connecticut, about 1651, and the son of the Reverend Sherman and Rebecca (Eaton) Kellogg. He was born on December 8, 1830 in Orwell, Vermont, United States.
Kellogg secured his formal education at Norwich Military Institute, and after his removal to Illinois in 1848, read law several winters while teaching a district school. He was admitted to the bar in 1853.
Anout 1853 Kellogg began law practice in Canton, Illinois. Like many other young Western lawyers, he early won a place in local politics, and in 1856 became a delegate to the state convention in Bloomington at which the Republican party of Illinois was organized. Four years later he was chosen a presidential elector on the Lincoln ticket. In March 1861, President Lincoln named him chief justice of Nebraska Territory, but he resigned at the outbreak of war to raise a regiment of cavalry in Illinois. After serving for less than a year in the Missouri campaign under Pope and winning promotion to the rank of brigadier-general, he was compelled by ill health to resign. One of President Lincoln's last official acts was to commission Kellogg collector of the port of New Orleans, where he promptly became conspicuous as a Carpet-bag politician.
The legislature of Louisiana elected him in 1868 to the United States Senate, but his nomination by the Republican or "Radical" party for the governor ship of his adopted state led to his resignation in 1872. His entire administration was torn with dissensions. The announcement of his election was followed by a battle of injunctions. Two returning boards were organized to canvass the ballots, two rival legislatures convened, and two governors duly inaugurated. When the failure of Congress to decide between the contesting state governments threw action upon the administration, President Grant recognized Kellogg as the legitimate governor on May 22, 1873. The trials of his term included a riot, during which the conservatives by seizure of the state buildings drove the "usurper" Kellogg to the customhouse for refuge until he was restored by a presidential proclamation. A second threat of civil conflict led to a compromise which left Kellogg in office for the remainder of his term. In violation of the spirit of the compromise, he was impeached by the lower house, but the state Senate wisely dismissed the case.
The Louisiana election of 1876 resulted again in dual governments and it was to the Republican faction that Kellogg owed his second election as United States senator. Notwithstanding the questionable legality of the election, the national Senate by a close party vote seated Kellogg rather than his contesting rival, although the Democratic legislature was ultimately recognized by President Hayes. Declining to be a candidate for reelection to the Senate, where he had in no way distinguished himself, he was elected to the House of Representatives for one term, 1883-1885. Thereafter, except for his appearance as a delegate at the Republican national conventions until 1896, he dropped out of politics, living in retirement at Washington, D. C. , until his death.
While there can be no doubt that Kellogg undertook to serve Louisiana under grave difficulties, falling heir to the bitter hatred which had been accumulating against Carpet-baggers and which vented itself in several attempts upon his life, he indubitably lacked the force demanded by the troublous times, and his administration augmented rather than mitigated the odium which attached to Carpet-bag rule.
William Pitt Kellogg was recognized as one of the most important politicians in Louisiana during Reconstruction era after the Civil War. He became a founding member of the state Republican Party and was distinguished as one of few Senators to be elected to the House of Representatives immediately after leaving the Senate.
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Kellogg joined the U. S. Republican Party about 1853.
Kellogg was married June 6, 1865, to Mary Emily Wills at Canton, Illinois.
