Orlando Kellogg

Orlando Kellogg

Orlando Kellogg (June 18, 1809 August 24, 1865) was a U.S. Representative from New York during the latter half of the American Civil War and the early days of Reconstruction.

Biography

Born in Elizabethtown, New York, Kellogg pursued an academic course. He engaged in the carpenter's trade in early youth. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice in Elizabethtown. Surrogate of Essex County 1840–1844.

Kellogg was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1849). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1848. He resumed the practice of his profession in Elizabethtown, New York. He served as a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention.

Kellogg was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses and served from March 4, 1863, until his death in Elizabethtown, New York, August 24, 1865. He was interred in Riverside Cemetery.

State Senator Rowland C. Kellogg (1843–1911) was his son.

References

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Erastus D. Culver
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 14th congressional district

1847–1849
Succeeded by
George R. Andrews
Preceded by
William A. Wheeler
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 16th congressional district

1863–1865
Succeeded by
Robert S. Hale

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