Frank Billings Kellogg (1856-1937)

Awarded the Prize “for his most important efforts in the Kellogg-Bri Pact signed in 1928, a multilateral agreement designed to prohibit war as an instrument of national policy.”

American attorney deplomat. Kellogg was born on December 22, 1856 Potsdam, New York. He attended school in New York State in Minnesota. In 1877, he became the city attorney for Rochester two years later the attorney for Olmsted County. In 1916 he was elected to the U.S. Senate. In 1925 he became secretary of state of the United States. Kellogg died on December 21, 1937 at St. Paul, Minnesota.