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Philander
Knox)
| Philander
Chase Knox |
|
|
In office
April
5, 1901 – June
30, 1904 |
| Preceded by |
John
W. Griggs |
| Succeeded by |
William
H. Moody |
|
In office
March
6, 1909 – March
5, 1913 |
| Preceded by |
Robert
Bacon |
| Succeeded by |
William
Jennings Bryan |
|
| Born |
May
6, 1853
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, USA |
| Died |
October
12, 1921
Washington,
DC, USA |
| Political party |
Republican |
| Profession |
Lawyer,
Politician |
Philander Chase Knox (May
6, 1853–October
12, 1921)
was an American
lawyer
and politician
who served as Attorney
General and U.S.
Senator and was Secretary
of State from 1909-1913.
Knox was born in the Pittsburgh
suburb of Brownsville,
Pennsylvania, and graduated from Mount
Union College in 1872. He was admitted to the bar in
1875 and practiced in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. From 1876-1877 he was Assistant United
States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania and
became President of the Pennsylvania Bar Association in
1897.
As counsel for the Carnegie
Steel Company, he took a prominent part in organizing
the United
States Steel Corporation in 1901.
He served as Attorney
General in the cabinets of Presidents McKinley
and Theodore
Roosevelt from 1901 to 1904. While serving Roosevelt,
Knox worked hard with the concept of Dollar
Diplomacy. In June 1904, when he was appointed by Governor
Samuel
W. Pennypacker of Pennsylvania
to fill the unexpired term of Matthew
S. Quay in the United
States Senate; in 1905 he was re-elected to the Senate
for the full term (to 1909). After an unsuccessful bid for
the Republican Presidential nomination in 1908, he served as
Secretary of State in President Taft's
cabinet from March 6, 1909 until March 5, 1913.
As Secretary of State, Knox reorganized the Department on
a divisional basis, extended the merit system to the
Diplomatic Service up to the grade of chief of mission,
pursued a policy of encouraging and protecting American
investments abroad, and accomplished the settlement of the Bering
Sea controversy and the North Atlantic fisheries
controversy.
Following his term of office, he resumed the practice of
law in Pittsburgh. He was again elected to the Senate from
Pennsylvania and served from 1917 to 1921. Knox died in
Washington, D.C. in 1921.
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