William Kellogg (Illinois)

William Kellogg ( born July 8, 1814 Kelloggsville, Ashtabula County, Ohio, † December 20, 1872 in Peoria, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1857 and 1863 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Kellogg attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began in Canton ( Illinois) to work in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1849 and 1850 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Illinois; 1850 to 1855 he served as a judge. Politically, he joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854.

In the congressional elections of 1856 Kellogg was the fourth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Knox on March 4, 1857. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1863 three legislative periods. These were minted until 1861 by the events in the immediate run-up to the Civil War and after the war itself.

Between 1865 and 1867 was William Kellogg Supreme Chief Justice judge in the Nebraska Territory. He then headed to 1869 the financial district of Peoria. He then went on for some time as a judge in the state of Mississippi. After the re- admission of that State into the Union, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress. Soon after, he returned to Peoria, where he died on 20 December 1872.