Knox, Frank,  1874-1944. <br/><br/>
Frank Knox papers, 1898-1954. 

 - 2,800  items. 12  7  containers plus  oversize. 5.4  linear feet. 
 -  Arranged in 8 series.  Series 1: Diaries, 1898-1944; Series 2: Family Correspondence, 1898-1944; Series 3: General Correspondence, 1917-1944; Series 4: Special Correspondence, 1911-1943; Series 5: Speeches and Writings, 1914-1944; Series 6: Annie Reid Knox File, 1936-1954; Series 7: Miscellany; and Series 8: Oversize. 
<br/><br/> Open to research. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Photographs <br/>Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <br/>transferred to 
<br/><br/><br/>U.S. secretary of the navy, U.S. Army officer, and newspaper editor and publisher. 
<br/><br/><br/>Collection material in English. 
<br/><br/> Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012151 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>mm 77028845  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 --Correspondence.<br/>Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 --Correspondence.<br/>Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 --Correspondence.<br/>Forrestal, James, 1892-1949 --Correspondence.<br/>Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965 --Correspondence.<br/>Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 --Correspondence.<br/>Ickes, Harold L. 1874-1952 --Correspondence.<br/>Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974 --Correspondence.<br/>Marshall, George C. 1880-1959 --Correspondence.<br/>Muehling, John Adam, 1862-1944 --Correspondence.<br/>Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945 --Correspondence.<br/>Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 --Correspondence.<br/>Vandenberg, Arthur H. 1884-1951 --Correspondence.<br/>White, William Allen, 1868-1944 --Correspondence.<br/>Willkie, Wendell L. 1892-1944 --Correspondence.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. Army.  Volunteer Cavalry, 1st. <br/>United States. Navy Department. <br/>Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Chicago Daily News.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American newspapers--Illinois--Chicago.<br/>Spanish-American War, 1898.<br/>World War, 1914-1918.<br/>Vice-Presidential candidates--United States--1936.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Politics and government--1901-1953.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Occupation: </label><br/>Cabinet officers.<br/>Newspaper editors.<br/>Publishers.