Knox Family

Frank Knox (born William Franklin Knox)

• Served with Rough Riders in Spanish American War
• Knox was 1936 vice presidential (Alf Landon) candidate running against Roosevelt. He was appointed Secretary of the Navy by Rosevelt when WWII broke out
• The Gearing-class destroyer USS Frank Knox (DD-742), commissioned in December 1944, was named in his honor.

Frank Knox was married to Annie Reid Knox

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♦ Elyse Knox married Tom Harmon

♦ Tom Harmon married Elyse Knox

∞ they had three children (∞ Mark, Kelley, Kristin)

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∞ Mark Harmon (son, born Thomas Mark Harmon, Sept 2, 1951) (who married Pam Dawber)

• Mark Harmon stars in NCIS (tv series), celebrating 1000th episode in April, 2024

∞ Harmon's sister Kristin Nelson married actor and musician Ricky Nelson, but the pair divorced in 1982, three years before Nelson died in a plane crash in Texas.

∞ Mark’s other sister, Kelly, married automobile mogul John DeLorean, the founder of DeLorean Motor Company

Sources

https://soulrideblog.com/2019/02/10/quite-a-bbq-b-movie-beauty-elyse-knox/

External links

https://activebeat.com/lifestyle/things-you-might-not-know-about-ncis-star-mark-harmon/