Henry T. Kellogg
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Henry Theodore Kellogg was an American lawyer and politician from New York
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Life

He was the son of Sylvester Alonzo Kellogg (1838-1904, justice of the New York Supreme Court
New York Supreme Court
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) and Susan Elizabeth (Averill) Kellogg. He graduated A.B.
Bachelor of Arts
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 from Rock Point Military Academy in Burlington, Vermont
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, and LL.B. from Harvard University
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 in 1892. He practiced law at Plattsburgh, New York. On March 5, 1903, he married Katharine Miller Weed.

On June 16, 1903, he was appointed by Governor Odell a justice of the New York Supreme Court
New York Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in thestate court system of New York, United States. There is a supreme court in each of New York State's 62 counties, although some smaller counties share judges with neighboring counties...

 (4th District) to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his father, and was elected as a Republican to a full term in November of the same year. From 1918 on, he sat on the Appellate Division, Third Dept.
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In 1926, he was elected on the Republican and Democratic tickets to the New York Court of Appeals
New York Court of Appeals
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. He resigned on May 16, 1934 due to ill health.

He was buried at the Riverside Cemetery in Plattsburgh.

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