Biography:

Philader Chase Knox was a Pennsylvania Senator and the 40th Secretary of State.  Knox was born in Pennsylvania in 1853.  He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1875.  He served as Attorney General in the administrations of Presidents McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.  In 1904 Knox became a US Senator.  In 1908 Knox unsuccessfully sought the Republican Presidential nomination, but lost to Howard Taft.  President Taft later appointed him Secretary of State.  Knox died in 1921.