John Jay Knox Jr.

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Green Berry Raum |successor1 = Walter Evans | image = John Jay Knox - Brady-Handy.jpg | caption = ''Photograph of Knox, by Mathew Brady'' | birth_date = | birth_place = Knoxboro, New York, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | resting_place = Oak Hill Cemetery
Washington, D.C., U.S. | education = | alma_mater = Hamilton College | party = | spouse = Caroline Elizabeth Todd | children = | relations = }} John Jay Knox Jr. (March 19, 1828 – February 9, 1892) was an American financier and government official. He is best remembered as a primary author of the Coinage Act of 1873, which discontinued the use of the silver dollar.

Knox was Comptroller of the Currency from 1872 to 1884. An advocate of uniform currency for the national banks of the country, his portrait was featured on the obverse of the $100 United States national bank notes of the Series of 1902. Provided by Wikipedia