Francis L. Kellogg

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Francis Leonard Kellogg (January 5, 1917–April 6, 2006) was a diplomat, a special assistant to the Secretary of State during the Nixon and Ford Administrations and a prominent socialite in New York City.

He was born in Manhattan at 118 East 70th Street, a son of Emily and Frank Leonard Kellogg. He was graduated from Choate School and Princeton University. After military service in the Army during WW II, he would serve under both William P. Rogers and Henry Kissinger.

He was first married in 1942 to a great-granddaughter of John Wanamaker, Fernanda Wanamaker Munn and they had two children. After their divorce in 1971 he married Mercedes Tavacoli, who would later after their own divorce marry Sid Bass.

He would die at 775 Park Avenue, just three blocks from where he was born, at the age of 89.

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Francis L. Kellogg, 89, Diplomat and Prominent Socialite, is Dead by Nadine Brozan, April 15, 2006, New York Times online retrieved May 16, 2008 obituary