“Frank Knox: Roughrider in FDR's War Cabinet”
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Frank Knox
William Franklin Knox was an American politician, soldier, newspaper editor, and publisher. He was the Republican vice presidential candidate in 1936 and Secretary of the Navy under Franklin D. Roosevelt during most of World War II.
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politics · 47th Secretary of the Navy of the United States (1874–1944) · politician · journalist · newspaper proprietor · minister · also Frank Knox, William Franklin Knox, Knox
Born 1 January 1874 · Died 28 April 1944 · Q526220
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1948· 1 entry
His widow, Annie Reid Knox (1875–1958) endowed the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowships, which allow scholars from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, and the United Kingdom to pursue graduate study at
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1945· 1 entry
Received posthumously the Medal for Merit from President Harry S
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1944· 2 entries
At Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia
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Died 1944-04-28.
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1940· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States Secretary of the Navy (1940–1944).
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Roosevelt appointed him as Secretary of the Navy in hopes of building bipartisan support
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1939· 1 entry
Knox supported aid to the Allies
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1936· 1 entry
And Secretary of the Navy under Franklin D
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1931· 1 entry
Frank Knox became publisher and part owner of the Chicago Daily News
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1912· 2 entries
Who were later named to a Republican ticket
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Was a key organizer for the presidential ambitions of Theodore Roosevelt
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1874· 1 entry
Born 1874-01-01.
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