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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Salmon Chase Biography CHASE.
Salmon Portland, an American jurist; born in Cornish, N. H., Jan. 13, 1808;
educated at Windsor, Vt., in his uncle's family at Columbus, 0., and in
Dartmouth College; taught school in Washington, while studying law with William
Wirt; opened law, practice in Cincinnati. In 1846 he argued the Fugitive Slave
Law with William H. Seward, in a celebrated case, and his support of the
anti-slavery cause soon made him a leader of the Free Soil and Republican
parties. in 1849 he was elected to the United States Senate; in 1855 Governor of
Ohio; in 1860 was a prominent candidate for the Republican presidential
nomination; appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Lincoln, in 1861,
and in 1864 became Chief-Justice, in which office he presided at the impeachment
trial of President Johnson. He died in New York city, May 7, 1873. People’s Cyclopedia, Vol. I (New York: Syndicate Publishing, 1914) |