Philander C. Knox

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Philander Chase Knox (born May 6, 1853 in Brownsville , Fayette County , Pennsylvania , † October 12, 1921 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer and politician . He was Minister of Justice ( Attorney General ), Senator and Secretary of State ( Secretary of State ) of the United States of America.

In 1872 Philander Knox graduated from Mount Union College . He was admitted to the bar three years later and ran his own law firm in Pittsburgh . In 1876 he was appointed Deputy Attorney General ( Assistant United States Attorney ) for the Western District of Pennsylvania and president of the Bar Association in Pennsylvania ( Pennsylvania Bar Association ). As legal advisor to the Carnegie Steel Company , he was primarily responsible for establishing the United States Steel Corporation .

In the cabinets of Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, Knox held the office of Attorney General. In 1904 the Governor of Pennsylvania, Samuel Pennypacker , appointed him to the US Senate to succeed the late Matthew Quay , where he remained until March 4, 1909. From 1909 to 1913 he was Secretary of State of the United States under President William Howard Taft . In this position he reformed the departments of the State Department and made a special contribution to the protection of American foreign investments.

After the end of his tenure in the Taft cabinet , he sat again for the Republicans in the US Senate until his death in 1921 .

literature

  • Michael Sanchez: Philander C. Knox. In: Edward S. Mihalkanin (Ed.): American Statesmen: Secretaries of State from John Jay to Colin Powell . Greenwood Publishing 2004, ISBN 978-0-313-30828-4 , pp. 307-313.

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personal data
SURNAME Knox, Philander C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knox, Philander Chase (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Brownsville , Fayette County , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1921
Place of death Washington, DC