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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MarylandSamuel CHASE
(1741-1811)
CHASE, Samuel, a Delegate
from Maryland; born in Princess Anne, Somerset County, Md., April
17, 1741; was tutored privately and pursued an academic course;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1761 and commenced practice
in Annapolis, Md.; member of the General Assembly of Maryland
1764-1784; Member of the Continental Congress 1774-1778; sent on a
special mission to Canada in 1776 to induce the Canadians to join
in the revolution against Great Britain; a signer of the
Declaration of Independence; went to England in 1783 as agent for
the State of Maryland to recover the stock in the Bank of England
which had been purchased when the State was a colony of Great
Britain; moved to Baltimore, Md., in 1786; judge of the Baltimore
criminal court in 1788; appointed judge of the general court of
Maryland in 1791; appointed by President Washington an Associate
Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1796; articles of
impeachment were filed against him in 1804 on charges of
malfeasance in office five years previous in his conduct of the
trials of Fries and Callendar for sedition, and for a more recent
address to a Maryland grand jury; tried by the Senate in 1805, he
was acquitted of all charges on March 1, 1805; resumed his seat on
the bench, and retained it until his death in Washington, D.C., on
June 19, 1811; interment in Old St. Paul’s Cemetery,
Baltimore, Md.
Bibliography
Haw, James. Stormy Patriot: The Life of Samuel Chase.
Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1980; Rehnquist, William H.
Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachment Cases of Justice Samuel
Chase and President Andrew Johnson. New York: Morrow,
1992.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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