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Francis William Kellogg

Francis William Kellogg (30 May 1810 – 13 January 1879) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-MI 3) from 4 March 1859 to 3 March 1863 (succeeding David S. Walbridge and preceding John W. Longyear), from MI-4 from 4 March 1863 to 3 March 1865 (succeeding Rowland E. Trowbridge and preceding Thomas W. Ferry), and from AL-1 from 22 July 1868 to 3 March 1869 (succeeding James Adams Stallworth and preceding Alfred Eliab Buck).

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Francis William Kellogg was born in Worthington, Massachusetts in 1810, and he moved to Columbus, Ohio in 1833 and to Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1855, where he became a lumber businessman. He served in the State House from 1857 to 1858 and then in the US House of Representatives from 1859 to 1865, organizing three regiments for the Union Army during the American Civil War. During Reconstruction, President Andrew Johnson appointed Kellogg as collector of internal revenue for southern Alabama in 1866, and he served until 1868, when he was elected to represent Alabama in the House of Representatives after its readmission to the Union. After leaving the house, he moved to New York City and later to Alliance, Ohio, where he died in 1879.