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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912

Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 180

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178 Mr. Poland was elected three times to the house, and was one of the most prominent men in his party. William Pitt Kellogg was what his enemies called a "carpet bagger." He protested against the appellation but the fact remains that up to 1865 he had never lived in the south. He was born in Vermont, studied and practiced law in Illinois, appointed chief justice of Nebraska by President Lincoln in 1861, and in 1865 appointed collector of the port of New Orleans. Upon the reconstruction of the state of Louisiana in 1868 Mr. Kellogg was elected by the republicans to the United State senate. During his term of service he made no important speeches, but presented bills, resolutions, and petitions by the score, most of which pertained to some matter in
 
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