KELLOGG, William Pitt, American law yer and politician: b. Orwell, Vt., 8 Dec. 1830. He was educated at the Norwich Military Insti tute and removed to Illinois, where he studied law. Being admitted to the bar in 1852 he began his practice at Canton. He became ac tive in the Republican party, was chairman of his delegation from Fulton County at the Bloomington Convention on 29 May 1856. Mr. Lincoln was chairman of his delegation from Sangamon County in the same convention. Here the Republican party of Illinois was or ganized. He was a delegate to the National convention in 1860, and one of the presidential electors in the same year, voting for Lincoln. In 1861 the President appointed him chief justice of the State of Nebraska, then a Federal territory, but later granted him leave of absence that he might raise a regiment of cavalry in Illinois, of which he became colonel. He remained in the army twoyears, serving in the Missouri campaign with Pope' was compelled to resign on account of ill health.
He was collector of the port at New Orleans (1865-68). His commission as collector is dated 13 April 1865, the day before President Lincoln was assassinated. He was United States senator in 1868-72, governor of Louisi ana in 1873-77, and a member of Congress in 1883-85. He was a delegate at every Republi can National Convention from 1876 to 1896. He was one of the 306 delegates who voted for Grant in the Republican Convention of 1880. He was delegate-at-large from Louisiana in 1896, and after the election of Prysident Mc Kinley he retired from active politics. Since 1900 he has resided most of the time in Wash ington, where he has considerable interest. He is a member of the Loyal Legion Corn mandery of the District of Columbia.