Salmon P. Chase

Salmon P. Chase
1801-1873
Secretary of the Treasury 1861-1864
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1864-1873

Salmon Portland Chase born in 1808 of Cornish, New Hampshire, became well known in Cincinnati, Ohio as the " attorney general of fugitive slaves' for his efforts on that behalf of many slaves who sought freedom in the free state of Ohio. Elected to the United States Senate in 1849, he was an outspoken opponent of slavery extension. Chase served Ohio as its governor for two terms. December 1864, President Lincoln appointed him Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, where he served until his death in New York in May of 1873.

Biography of Salmon Portland Chase

"Old Mr. Greenback"1862

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Members of Lincoln's War Cabinet: Left to right: Edwin McMasters Stanton,Secretary of War, Salmon P Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, President Abraham Lincoln, Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of State William H. Seward, Secretary of the Interior Caleb B. Smith, Postmaster General Montgomery Blair, and Attorney General Edward Bates.

The Honorable Chase Court is now in session. One of the earliest group photograph of the Justices taken in 1865. Left to right: Justices David Davis, Noah Swayne, Robert Grier, James M. Wayne, Chief Justice Salmon P Chase, Justices Samuel Nelson, Nathan Clifford, Samuel Miller and Stephen J. Field.