
Frank Billings Kellogg (22 December 1856 – 21 December 1937) was a US Senator from Minnesota (R) from 4 March 1917 to 4 March 1923, succeeding Moses E. Clapp and preceding Henrik Shipstead, and Secretary of State from 5 March 1925 to 28 March 1929, succeeding Charles Evans Hughes and preceding Henry L. Stimson.
Biography[]
Frank Billings Kellogg was born in Potsdam, New York in 1856, and his family moved to Minnesota in 1865. He began practicing law in Rochester in 1877, and he prosecuted a federal antitrust case for President Theodore B. Roosevelt during the 1900s. From 1917 to 1923, Kellogg served in the US Senate, and he served as Secretary of State from 1925 to 1929. In 1928, he concluded the Kellogg-Briand Pact with French foreign minister Aristide Briand, attempting to outlaw war. He was awarded the 1929 Nobel Peace Prize, and he died in 1937.