biography
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Knox, Philander Chase
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| lived:
| (1853–1921)
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| biography:
| Lawyer, cabinet member, and US senator, born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, USA. He practised industrial law in Pittsburgh, PA (1877–99). As McKinley's attorney general (1901–4), he filed an anti-trust suit that prevented J P Morgan's western railroad monopoly. A mid-term senator (Republican, Pennsylvania, 1904–9), he became secretary of state (1909–13), initiating ‘dollar diplomacy’ to protect American investments overseas. He later returned to the Senate (1917–21). |
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