Robert J. Grant

Robert J. Grant (1862 – November 24, 1950)[1] was Director of the United States Mint from 1923 to 1933.

Robert J. Grant
Robert J. Grant, Supt. of the Denver Mint, has been appt. by Pres. to be Dir. of the mint succeeding F.E. Scobey
27th Director of the United States Mint
In office November 1923 – May 1933
President	Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt
Preceded by	Frank Edgar Scobey
Succeeded by	Nellie Tayloe Ross

Grant was born in Nova Scotia. Before becoming Director of the U.S. Mint, Grant was the Superintendent of the Denver Mint. In 1923, President of the United States Calvin Coolidge nominated Grant to be Director of the United States Mint and Grant subsequently held this office from November 1923 to May 1933.[2] Upon leaving the U.S. Mint, Grant sailed to Shanghai to become mint adviser to the Chinese Nationalist government.[3]