Stephen Wright Kellogg

Stephen Wright Kellogg

Stephen Wright Kellogg (born April 5, 1822 in Shelburne , Franklin County , Massachusetts , †  January 27, 1904 in Waterbury , Connecticut ) was an American politician . Between 1869 and 1875 he represented the second constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Stephen Kellogg attended school in his home ward Shelburne and then Amherst College . He then studied until 1846 at Yale College . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1848, he began to practice in Naugatuck in his new profession. In 1851 he was employed by the Connecticut Senate administration. Two years later he was elected to this Chamber of Parliament himself.

In 1854 Kellogg moved to Waterbury, where he again worked as a lawyer. In the same year he became a judge in the District Court of New Haven County . From 1854 to 1860 he was also a judge at the probate court there. Kellogg became a member of the Republican Party founded in 1854 , whose Republican National Conventions he attended as a delegate in 1860, 1868 and 1876. At these congresses Abraham Lincoln , Ulysses S. Grant and finally Rutherford B. Hayes were nominated as the party's presidential candidates. In 1856, Kellogg was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives. During the Civil War , he was colonel in a Connecticut National Guard regiment from 1863 to 1866 . He was then brigadier general in the National Guard until 1870 . At the same time he was from 1866 to 1869 trial lawyer for the City of Waterbury. He was to take on this task again between 1877 and 1883.

In 1868, Kellogg was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the Second District of Connecticut . There he took over from Julius Hotchkiss from the Democratic Party on March 4, 1869 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1875 . There he was from 1871 to 1873 chairman of the committee to control the expenditure of the Navy Ministry. Between 1873 and 1875 he was a member of the Public Service Reform Committee. In the elections of 1874 and 1876 he was defeated by the Democrat James Phelps . He then worked again as a lawyer in Waterbury, where he also died in 1904.

Web links

• Stephen Wright Kellogg in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Stephen Wright Kellogg in the database of Find a Grave (English)