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Kellogg, William Pitt

soldier, jurist, congressman, governor, United States senator, was born Dec. 8, 1831, in Orwell, Vt. He was a presidential elector from Illinois in 1856 and 1860; and a delegate to the republican conventions of those years. He was appointed chief justice of Nebraska. For his services in Southern Missouri and in the Corinth campaign, he was made a brigadier-general. He was appointed collector of the port of New Orleans; and in 1868 was elected a senator in congress from Louisiana for the term ending in 1871. He was subsequently elected governor of Louisiana. He was again elected to the United States senate for the term of six years from 1877; and in 1882 was elected a representative to the forty-eighth congress as a republican.