Robert J. Grant

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Robert John Grant (November 12, 1862 – November 24, 1949) was an American government official who served as Director of the United States Mint from 1923 to 1933. He was born in Nova Scotia and had previously been the Superintendent of the Denver Mint. In 1923, President Calvin Coolidge nominated him to lead the U.S. Mint, and he stayed in the job until May 1933, serving under Coolidge, Hoover, and Roosevelt. After leaving the Mint, he went to Shanghai to advise the Chinese Nationalist government on minting and coinage.