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| 1856-1876 Born at Potsdam, NY, and reared in
Olmsted Co., MN 1877-1879 Attorney for the city of Rochester, Minnesota 1879-1887 Attorney for Olmsted County, Minnesota 1887-1907 Attorney in private practice and corporate counsel 1904-1911 Antitrust prosecutor (General Paper, Union Pacific, Standard Oil) 1904-1912 Member of Republican National Committee and Conventions delegate 1912-1916 Attorney and President of the American Bar Association 1917-1923 U. S. Senator, focusing on ecomonic matters and foreign affairs 1923-1924 Pan-American Conference delegate and ambassador to Great Britain 1925-1929 U. S. Secretary of State in the administration of Calvin Coolidge 1927-1929 Formulator and proponent of the Kellogg-Briand Pact (Pact of Paris) 1929-1930 Recipient of many honors, including the Nobel Peace Prize for 1929 1930-1935 Judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice (World Court) 1935-1937 Retired to St. Paul, Minnesota, and died there |
Business Card and autograph
(scanned at 200% actual size)
Envelope with Frank B. Kellogg corner card
The autographed business card was sent to
John E. Boos in this envelope. Mr. Boos was a former
White House correspondent and past president of the White House
Correspondence Association
during the FDR years. He was a noted collector of political memorabilia
and prepared specialized
collections, including two of photos and press materials about
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt (1960).
Items from the Boos collection can be found in the collectible
market.
Modified: 3/16/00