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PHILANDER CHASE KNOX (1853– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 883 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHASE See also:KNOX (1853– )  , See also:American lawyer and See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born in See also:Brownsville, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 4th of May 1853 . He graduated from See also:Mount See also:Union See also:College (See also:Ohio) in 1872, and was admitted to the Pennsylvania See also:bar in 1875 . He settled in See also:Pittsburg, where he continued in private practice, with the exception of two years' service (1876–1877) as assistant See also:United States See also:district See also:attorney, acquiring a large practice as a See also:corporation lawyer . In See also:April 1901 he became attorney-See also:general of the United States in the See also:cabinet of See also:President See also:McKinley, and retained this position after the See also:accession of President See also:Roosevelt until See also:June 1904. when he was appointed by See also:Governor Pennypacker of Pennsylvania to fill the unexpired See also:term of See also:Matthew S . See also:Quay in the United States See also:Senate; in 1905 he was re-elected to the Senate for the full term . In See also:March 1909 he became secretary of See also:state in the cabinet of President See also:Taft .

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