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One of Kell's sons-in-law, [[Orville Bullington]], a [[Missouri]] native and lawyer and businessman in Wichita Falls, was the 1932 [[Republican Party|Republican]]  [[Governor|gubernatorial]]nominee. He polled some 38 percent of the [[general election]] vote against the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] former Governor Miriam Amanda Wallace "Ma" Ferguson (1875-1961), even as President Hoover was crushed in his re-election bid in Texas and nationally.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.texasalmanac.com/politics/gubernatorial.pdf|title=Elections of Texas Governors, 1845–2006|publisher=texasalmananc.com|accessdate=June 11, 2010}}</ref> After Kell's death, Bullington became president of the Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad and was its executive at the time the company was liquidated.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbu18|title=''The Handbook of Texas'' on-line: Orville Bullington|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=July 10, 2020}}</ref>​

One of Kell's sons-in-law, [[Orville Bullington]], a [[Missouri]] native and lawyer and businessman in Wichita Falls, was the 1932 [[Republican Party|Republican]]  [[Governor|gubernatorial]]nominee. He polled some 38 percent of the [[general election]] vote against the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] former Governor Miriam Amanda Wallace "Ma" Ferguson (1875-1961), even as President Hoover was crushed in his re-election bid in Texas and nationally.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.texasalmanac.com/politics/gubernatorial.pdf|title=Elections of Texas Governors, 1845–2006|publisher=texasalmananc.com|accessdate=June 11, 2010}}</ref> After Kell's death, Bullington became president of the Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad and was its executive at the time the company was liquidated.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbu18|title=''The Handbook of Texas'' on-line: Orville Bullington|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=July 10, 2020}}</ref>​

Kell himself was involved with the Republican Party after his son-in-law, Orville Bullington in 1918 left the Democratic Party. In 1922, Kell was among the fundraisers for [[George Peddy]] of Shelby County in East Texas, a former short-term state representative and an assistant district attorney in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], who became a combination Republican/[[Independent voter|Independent]] candidate for the [[U.S. Senate]].<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=1LV8z4R_6_wC&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&dq=Frank+Kell+and+the+1920+Republican+presidential+campaign&source=bl&ots=GiAZcdmonF&sig=KqxZ8K2EjajQ6TDAbh6q_2UJn4I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pXNsUYOnG4LrqQGMwIGwBA&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Frank%20Kell%20and%20the%201920%20Republican%20presidential%20campaign&f=false|author=Norman D. Brown|title=Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug: Texas Politics, 1921-1928|page=122|publisher=[[Texas A&M University]] ''Southwestern Studies,'' 1984; ISBN 0-89096-157-3|accessdate=April 16, 2013}}</ref> Peddy, however, was handily defeated by the Democratic nominee, Earle Bradford Mayfield (1881-1964) of Overton, also in East Texas, in the [[general election]] held on November 7. An outgoing member of the Texas Railroad Commission, Mayfield carried the backing of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] and the [[prohibition]] forces. For months thereafter, the election was disputed because of questions over filing deadlines which had forced Peddy to run as a write-in candidate. After a nine-month delay, the Senate awarded the seat to Mayfield, who beat Peddy by a two-to-one margin, an outcome attributed to party loyalty among the state's then large mass of Democratic voters. Mayfield, in turn, was unseated in the 1928 Democratic runoff election by [[U.S. Representative]] Thomas Terry "Tom" Connally (1877-1963), a native of McLennan County.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/contested_elections/103Peddy_Mayfield.htm|title=The Election Case of George E. B. Peddy v. Earle B. Mayfield of Texas (1925)|publisher=senate.gov|accessdate=April 16, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fma91|title=Mayfield, Earle Bradford|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=July 10, 2020}}</ref>​

Kell himself was involved with the Republican Party after his son-in-law, Orville Bullington, in 1918 left the Democratic Party. In 1922, Kell was among the fundraisers for [[George Peddy]] of Shelby County in East Texas, a former short-term state representative and an assistant district attorney in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], who became a combination Republican/[[Independent voter|Independent]] candidate for the [[U.S. Senate]].<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=1LV8z4R_6_wC&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&dq=Frank+Kell+and+the+1920+Republican+presidential+campaign&source=bl&ots=GiAZcdmonF&sig=KqxZ8K2EjajQ6TDAbh6q_2UJn4I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pXNsUYOnG4LrqQGMwIGwBA&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Frank%20Kell%20and%20the%201920%20Republican%20presidential%20campaign&f=false|author=Norman D. Brown|title=Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug: Texas Politics, 1921-1928|page=122|publisher=[[Texas A&M University]] ''Southwestern Studies,'' 1984; ISBN 0-89096-157-3|accessdate=April 16, 2013}}</ref> Peddy, however, was handily defeated by the Democratic nominee, Earle Bradford Mayfield (1881-1964) of Overton, also in East Texas, in the [[general election]] held on November 7. An outgoing member of the Texas Railroad Commission, Mayfield carried the backing of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] and the [[prohibition]] forces. For months thereafter, the election was disputed because of questions over filing deadlines which had forced Peddy to run as a write-in candidate. After a nine-month delay, the Senate awarded the seat to Mayfield, who beat Peddy by a two-to-one margin, an outcome attributed to party loyalty among the state's then large mass of Democratic voters. Mayfield, in turn, was unseated in the 1928 Democratic runoff election by [[U.S. Representative]] Thomas Terry "Tom" Connally (1877-1963), a native of McLennan County.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/contested_elections/103Peddy_Mayfield.htm|title=The Election Case of George E. B. Peddy v. Earle B. Mayfield of Texas (1925)|publisher=senate.gov|accessdate=July 10, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fma91|title=Mayfield, Earle Bradford|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=July 10, 2020}}</ref>​

Kell's namesake grandson, [[Frank Kell Cahoon]], left Wichita Falls as a young man to enter the oil and [[natural gas]] business in [[Midland]] and was in 1965 the only Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, during a portion of his four-year stint in the chamber. He was the son of the former Sibyl Kell and Charles Wilbur Cahoon, Jr. (1897–1979).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.npwelch.com/services.asp?page=odetail&id=56390&locid=1|title=Frank Kell Cahoon (1934-2013)|publisher=npwelch.com|accessdate=April 13, 2013}}</ref>​

Kell's namesake grandson, [[Frank Kell Cahoon]], left Wichita Falls as a young man to enter the oil and [[natural gas]] business in [[Midland]] and was in 1965 the only Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, during a portion of his four-year stint in the chamber. He was the son of the former Sibyl Kell and Charles Wilbur Cahoon, Jr. (1897–1979).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.npwelch.com/services.asp?page=odetail&id=56390&locid=1|title=Frank Kell Cahoon (1934-2013)|publisher=npwelch.com|accessdate=April 13, 2013}}</ref>​