An opponent of U.S. involvement in the
First World War, Kellogg joined
Jane Addams and
Oswald Garrison Villard, to persuade
Henry Ford, the American industrialist, to organize a peace conference in
Stockholm. Ford came up with the idea of sending a boat of
pacifists to Europe to determine if they could negotiate an agreement to end the war. He chartered the ship
Oskar II, and it sailed from
Hoboken, New Jersey, on December 4, 1915. The
Ford Peace Ship reached Stockholm in January 1916, and a conference was organized with representatives from neutral countries. In 1918, Kellogg became the chairman of the
Foreign Policy Association in New York. During the First World War Kellogg had become appalled by the way people were being persecuted for their political beliefs, particularly by Attorney General
A. Mitchell Palmer. In 1920, Kellogg joined with
Roger Baldwin,
Norman Thomas,
Crystal Eastman, Addams,
Clarence Darrow,
John Dewey,
Abraham Muste,
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and
Upton Sinclair to form the
American Civil Liberties Union. In 1927, Kellogg joined with many prominent liberals in an unsuccessful effort to prevent the execution of anarchist activists
Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti for murder. Kellogg died in
New Paltz, New York on November 1, 1958. ==References==