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Kellogg, Frank (Billings)
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| (1856–1937)
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| biography:
| US senator and cabinet member, born in Potsdam, New York, USA. A self-educated Minnesota corporate lawyer, he joined Theodore Roosevelt's administration as a special prosecutor and won several government anti-trust cases, notably against Standard Oil (1906–11). A senator (Republican, Minnesota, 1917–23) and ambassador to Britain (1923–5), he became secretary of state (1925–9), masterminding the multi-national Kellogg–Briand Pact renouncing war (1928), for which he received the 1929 Nobel Peace Prize. He returned to practising law, and served on the World Court at the Hague (1930–5). |
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