Salmon Portland Chase (January 13, 1808 – May 7, 1873) was an American politician and jurist in the Civil War era who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and Governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as Chief Justice of the United States.Chase articulated the "Slave Power conspiracy" thesis well before Lincoln did, and he coined the slogan of the Free Soil Party, "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men." He devoted his enormous energies to the destruction of what he considered the Slave Power — the conspiracy of Southern slave owners to seize control of the federal government and block the progress of liberty.

He described seeing Salmon P. Chase in the Senate in his autobiography published in 1906. Salmon P. Chase, the anti-slavery Senator from Ohio, was one of the stateliest ...

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Salmon Portland Chase (January 13, 1808 May 7, 1873) was an American politician and jurist in the Civil War era who served as Senator from Ohio, Governor of Ohio, as U.S. Treasury Secretary under ...

Salmon P. Chase. Salmon Chase was born in 1808 in New Hampshire. His family could trace its American origins to the early years of Massachusetts settlement in the seventeenth century.

Biographical information about the Justice who presided over Johnson's impeachment trial.

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Salmon Portland Chase was born in Cornish Township, New Hampshire , the son of a tavern keeper and minor public official. Following the death of his father, Chase lived with an uncle, Philander Chase ...