PHILANDER C. KNOX - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 07/16/1902 - HFSID 291710
Sale Price $215.00
Reg. $260.00
PHILANDER KNOX
As Attorney General, he accepts the resignation of an Assistant DA in
Indian Territory.
Typed Letter signed: "P C Knox" as Attorney General,
1page, 8x10. Washington, D.C., 1902 June 16. On official letterhead
to J. W. Ownby, Assistant US District Attorney, Ardmore, Indian Territory. In
full: "Your resignation as the Assistant to the United States Attorney
for the Southern District of the Indian Territory, tendered in your
communication of the thirteenth instant, is hereby accepted to take effect at
the close of business June 13, 1902. Respectfully". Philander C. Knox
(1853-1921) served as President William McKinley and Theodore
Roosevelt's Attorney General (1901-1904) and as President William Howard
Taft's Secretary of State (1909-1913). As Secretary of State Knox, by
background a corporate lawyer, was closely identified with Taft's "Dollar
Diplomacy" (promoting US interests by promoting foreign investments of US
corporations).He represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate from 1904
to 1909 and from 1917 until his death in 1921. Multiple mailing folds. Unknown
stain at left edge. Pencil note (unknown hand) on verso. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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