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Davis (CUSHMAN KELLOGG an American)

CUSHMAN KELLOGG, an American legislator; born in Henderson, N. Y., June 16, 1838. He was graduated at the University of Michigan in 1857; was admitted to the bar, but enlisted in the Union army in 1861. He began the practice of law in St. Paul in 1865; was chosen to the Minnesota Legislature in 1867; became United States district attorney in 1868; governor in 1874; and United States Senator in 1887, 1893 and 1899. He was a Republican, and a member of the Peace Commission, which negotiated the treaty between Spain and the United States in 1898. He was for several years chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and reported the resolution which practically declared war against Spain. He died at St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 27, 1900.