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 electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Stephen Kellogg attended school in his home town of Shelburne and then Amherst College. Subsequently, he studied until 1846 at Yale College. After a subsequent study of law and its made in 1848 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Naugatuck. In 1851 he was employed in the management of the Senate of Connecticut. Two years later he was elected even in this chamber of parliament.
In 1854, Kellogg moved to Waterbury, where he worked as a lawyer again. In the same year he became a judge at the District Court of New Haven County. From 1854 to 1860 he was also a judge at the local probate court. Kellogg was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854, the Republican National Convention he attended in 1860, 1868 and 1876 as a delegate. On these party days were Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes finally nominated as presidential candidate of the party. In 1856, Kellogg was elected to the House of Representatives from Connecticut. During the Civil War he was from 1863 to 1866 colonel of a regiment of the National Guard of Connecticut. After that, he was until 1870 Brigadier General in the National Guard. At the same time he was a litigator from 1866 to 1869 the city of Waterbury. This task he should take over again 1877-1883.
1868 Kellogg was in the second district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1869 the successor of Julius Hotchkiss of the Democratic Party. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1875 three legislative periods. He was from 1871 to 1873 Chairman of the Committee for the control of the expenditure of the Navy Department. Between 1873 and 1875 he was a member of the Committee on the reform of the civil service. In the elections of 1874 and 1876 he was defeated each Democrat James Phelps. He then worked again as a lawyer in Waterbury, where he died in 1904.