Charles Kellogg (congressman)

Charles Kellogg ( born October 3, 1773 in Sheffield, Massachusetts, † May 11 1842 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1825 and 1827 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Kellogg was born about two years before the outbreak of the American War of Independence in Berkshire County. He attended community schools. In 1798 he moved to Cayuga County, where he founded Kelloggsville. He went to commercial transactions. He also operated a flour mill in New Hope. He studied law. After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice. He was County Judge. Between 1808 and 1810, he sat in the New York State Assembly. Then he was justice of the peace in Sempronius Township. On 1 July 1814, he was appointed postmaster in Kelloggsville - a post he held until September 6, 1825. During this time he was 1820-1822 again in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group. In the congressional elections of 1824 for the 19th Congress Kellogg was in the 24th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Rowland Day on March 4, 1825. He retired after March 3, 1827 from the Congress. After his conference time he went to agricultural activities. In 1839 he moved to Ann Arbor, where he died about four years before the outbreak of the Mexican-American War. His body was then buried in the Fairview Cemetery.