Frank Knox

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47th Secretary of the Navy of the United States (1874-1944)

United States PoliticiansLived 1874 to 1944 · aged 70

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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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Admiral Harold R. Stark and Secretary Knox reading on a train in England in 1943

Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter administers the oath of office to Knox as Secretary of the Navy at the White House, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt looks on. (July 11, 1940)

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