He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate from Minnesota and served from March 4, 1917, to March 3, 1923. He lost his re election bid in 1922. He was a delegate to the Fifth International Conference of American States[?] at Santiago, Chile in 1923. He serverd as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Great Britain from 1923 to 1925, when he resigned. He was Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Calvin Coolidge 1925-1929. As Secretary of State,he coauthored the Kellogg-Briand Pact signed in 1928. He was associate judge of the Permanent Court for International Justice[?] from 1930 to 1935. Kellogg was awarded the 1929 Nobel Peace Prize . He died in St. Paul, Minnesota, on December 21, 1937.
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