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Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 2004.22.2
Frank Knox
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Ar…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 2004.22.2

Frank Knox

United States, 1874 - 1944
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Frank Knox fought in the army during World War I with the American Expeditionary Force's Seventy-eighth Division (1917-1919). After serving several positions as an army officer and newspaper publisher, Knox campaigned under Alf Landon as his vice-presidential candidate in 1936. Knox was defeated by Democratic vice-presidential nominee John Garner but was appointed as the Secretary of the Navy by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940.
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