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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioSalmon Portland CHASE
(1808-1873)
Senate Years of Service:
1849-1855; 1861-1861Party: Free Soil;
RepublicanCHASE, Salmon Portland,
(nephew of Dudley Chase, cousin of Dudley Chase Denison, and
father-in-law of William Sprague [1830-1915]), a Senator from Ohio;
born in Cornish, N.H., January 13, 1808; attended schools at
Windsor, Vermont, Worthington, Ohio, and the Cincinnati (Ohio)
College; graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1826;
taught school; studied law in Washington, D.C.; admitted to the bar
in 1829; commenced practice in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1830; elected
as a Whig to the Cincinnati City Council in 1840; identified
himself in 1841 with the Liberty Party, and later with the Free
Soil Party; elected to the United States Senate as a Free Soil
candidate and served from March 4, 1849, to March 3, 1855; elected
Governor of Ohio in 1855 as a Free Soil Democrat and reelected in
1857 as a Republican; elected as a Republican to the United States
Senate in 1860; took his seat March 4, 1861, but resigned two days
later to become Secretary of the Treasury under President Abraham
Lincoln; served as Secretary of the Treasury until July 1864, when
he resigned; member of the peace convention of 1861 held in
Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the
impending war; Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
from December 1864 until his death on May 7, 1873; presided at the
impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson in 1868; died in New
York City; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.;
reinterment in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American
Law; Blue, Frederick J. Salmon P. Chase: A Life in
Politics. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1987; Niven,
John. Salmon P. Chase: A Biography. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1995.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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