Philander C. Knox
U.S. Congressperson
1853 – 1921
Who was Philander C. Knox?
Philander Chase Knox was an American lawyer, bank director and politician who served as United States Attorney General, a Senator from Pennsylvania and Secretary of State. He served in the Cabinet under three presidents.
Active in law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the partnership known as Knox and Reed, Knox was also one of several founders of the city of Monessen in the state, where a street is named for him. With the industrialists Henry Clay Frick and Andrew Mellon, he was a director of the Pittsburgh National Bank of Commerce, and also was a director of another leading Pittsburgh bank.
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- Born
- May 6, 1853
Brownsville - Also known as
- Philander Knox
- Spouses
- Lillie Smith
(1880 - )
- Lillie Smith
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Mount Union College
- West Virginia University
- Died
- Oct 12, 1921
Washington, D.C.
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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