Frank Knox papers, 1898-1954.
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 2,800 items; 12 containers plus 7 oversize; 5.4 linear feetSubject(s): - Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 -- Correspondence
- Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 -- Correspondence
- Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 -- Correspondence
- Forrestal, James, 1892-1949 -- Correspondence
- Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965 -- Correspondence
- Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 -- Correspondence
- Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 -- Correspondence
- Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974 -- Correspondence
- Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959 -- Correspondence
- Muehling, John Adam, 1862-1944 -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Correspondence
- Vandenberg, Arthur H. (Arthur Hendrick), 1884-1951 -- Correspondence
- White, William Allen, 1868-1944 -- Correspondence
- Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944 -- Correspondence
- United States. Army. Volunteer Cavalry, 1st
- United States. Navy Department
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
- Chicago Daily News
- American newspapers -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Spanish-American War, 1898
- World War, 1914-1918
- Vice-Presidential candidates -- United States -- 1936
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1901-1953
- Cabinet officers
- Newspaper editors
- Publishers
Open to research.
Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Knox's service as a private in the U.S. Army 1st Volunteer Cavalry (Rough Riders) during the Spanish-American War and as an artillery officer during World War I, his work as editor and publisher of the Chicago Daily News, his 1936 Republican vice-presidential campaign, and his service as U.S. secretary of the navy (1940-1944). Correspondents include Chiang Kai-shek, Calvin Coolidge, Henry Ford, James Forrestal, Felix Frankfurter, Cordell Hull, Harold L. Ickes, Walter Lippmann, George C. Marshall, John Adam Muehling, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Arthur H. Vandenberg, William Allen White, and Wendell L. Willkie. Includes papers (1936-1954) of Knox's wife, Annie Reid Knox.
Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
U.S. secretary of the navy, U.S. Army officer, and newspaper editor and publisher.
Collection material in English.
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