Orlando Kellogg (June 18, 1809August 24, 1865) was a

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from New York during the latter half of the

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and the early days of

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Kellogg was born in

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and Kellogg pursued an academic course. He engaged in the carpentry trade in his early youth. He went on to study law, was

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in 1838, and commenced practice in Elizabethtown. He served as 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

. He served as a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention. Kellogg was elected as a

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to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses and served from March 4, 1863, until his death in

, August 24, 1865. He was interred in Riverside Cemetery. State Senator

Rowland C. Kellogg Rowland Case Kellogg (December 31, 1843 Elizabethtown, Essex, New York – January 15, 1911, Elizabethtown, Essex Co., NY) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Life He was the son of Congressman Orlando Kellogg (1809–1865) and ...

(1843–1911) was his son.

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