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  Salmon P. Chase - MSN Encarta
Salmon Portland Chase was born on January 13, 1808, in Cornish, New Hampshire, and educated at Dartmouth College.
Chase was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1848 as a Democrat, but he separated from the party in 1852 when it committed itself to slavery.
In this capacity Chase presided at the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson and dissented in the well-known Slaughterhouse Cases in 1872.
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 Salmon Chase
In 1855 Chase was elected as the governor of Ohio.
Chase was highly critical of those officers in the Union Army such as Irvin McDowell, George McClellan and Henry Halleck who appeared unwilling to attack the Confederate Army in 1862.
Salmon P. Chase, the anti-slavery Senator from Ohio, was one of the stateliest figures in the Senate.
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 Salmon Portland Chase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Chase was a serious contender for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination, but his extreme antislavery viewpoints prevented his winning.
Chase was a member of a small inner circle of Republicans who considered their own power base stronger than Lincoln's and did not hesitate to oppose him on issues of consequence.
Chase especially thought the president was not moving fast enough to abolish slavery, and in 1862 he attempted to lead other radical Republicans in a coup against Lincoln.
civilwar.bluegrass.net /PoliticsAndPoliticians/salmonportlandchase.html   (366 words)

  
 Ohio Historical Society | Ohio Governors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
SALMON P. In 1856 Salmon Portland Chase became the first Republican governor of Ohio as a result of what may truthfully be called a party revolution.
Ignoring his detractors, Chase emphasized the dangers of slavery extension and what he called "Southernism." The result of the election, crucial for the future of the Republican party in Ohio, was a victory for the entire Republican ticket.
Chase's arduous duties as chief justice and fruitless exertions to gain the presidency led to rapid decline in health and to death on May 7, 1873, at the age of sixty-five.
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 Chase, Salmon Portland. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Chase was elected governor of Ohio in 1855 at the head of a Republican ticket that was dominated by Know-Nothings; by 1857, when he was reelected, he was a leading member of the new Republican party.
Chase failed in his effort to secure the presidential nomination, but he remained an important national figure, and on Dec. 6, 1864, after the death of Roger B. Taney, Lincoln appointed Chase Chief Justice of the United States.
Chase persisted in seeking the presidency, but neither the Democrats in 1868 nor the Liberal Republicans in 1872 were interested in him.
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 Salmon Chase
Chase was the eighth child of Ithamar and Janette Ralston Chase.
Chase lost the Republican nomination to Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and in 1861, as a new Senator from Ohio, Chase was named Secretary of Treasury.
Chase was a capable Secretary, particularly given the importance of monetary issues in the conduct of the Civil War, but was a cabinet member whose loyalty Lincoln was to call into question.
www.michaelariens.com /ConLaw/justices/chasesal.htm   (887 words)

  
 From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: Salmon Portland Chase 5
Chase refused to hear cases in the Virginia Circuit while the State was still under the military government and not until the writ of habeas corpus was restored.
Chase insisted and by cleverly out maneuvering the senators, he insured that the trial would be conducted with impartially and with the proper character of judicial process assuring the President a fair trial.
Salmon Chase suffered a paralyzing stroke in the summer of 1870 that left him off the bench for a year.
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Salmon P. Chase was a giant figure in 19th-century America; his interests and activities pervaded politics and influenced the formulation of public policy at the highest levels of state and federal government.
Salmon P. Chase was chief justice of the Supreme Court during a pivotal period for American constitutional law.
Chase’s papers document the judicial process during Reconstruction—a period of intense political partisanship throughout the nation and of bitter ideological clashes between the legislative and executive branches.
www.lexisnexis.com /academic/2upa/Aph/ChasePapers_pf.asp   (618 words)

  
 The Reconstruction Justice of Salmon P. Chase
In these cases, Chase sought to consolidate the gains of the Civil War era, while demonstrating that the war had both preserved the precious core characteristics of the federal union of states and fundamentally improved the nature of both private and public law.
Chase's decision, which relied upon due process and equal protection implications in the thirteenth amendment and 1866 Civil Rights Act, confirmed the rights of emancipated slaves to bargain and contract with employers on a parity with white workers.
Chase's opinion reaffirmed the Union's permanence, and that of the constituent states in the federal union, and the states' duty to respect the legal rights and obligations of all citizens because states were people as well as acreages and institutions.
www.kansaspress.ku.edu /hymrec.html   (552 words)

  
 Chase, Salmon P.
Salmon Portland Chase was born on January 13, 1808, in Cornish, New Hampshire.
Salmon Chase attended the school and, when his uncle became president of Cincinnati College, enrolled as a student at the college.
Chase was unsuccessful in gaining the Republican presidential nomination in 1864, losing out to Lincoln as he had in 1860.
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 Salmon P. Chase
Salmon Portland Chase was born in Cornish Township, New Hampshire, the son of a tavern keeper and minor public official.
Chase’s initial political allegiance was to the Whig party, but in 1848 he assisted in the establishment of the Free-Soil Party.
Chase, Salmon P. Philander Chase was the Episcopal bishop of Ohio and ran a school near Worthington.
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 Salmon P. Chase
Salmon P. Chase was born in 1808 in New Hampshire.
When Chase was nine years old, his father died, and the youth was placed under the care of an uncle, who was the Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio.
As secretary of the treasury, Chase presided over the complex and difficult task of financing the war; he was instrumental in establishing the national banking system in 1863.
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 Herman Belz | Review Essay: Salmon P. Chase and the Politics of Racial Reform | Journal of the Abraham Lincoln ...
In Chase's case, dedication to the mission was complicated by the unusual, not to say excessive, ambition for political office and worldly fame that he manifested throughout his life.
Chase's historical significance, among other things, was to underscore the tension between reformist moralism and the political ethics required by ideological partisanship in an age of expanding democratic pluralism.
Chase, who was nine when his father died, may have been moved by a desire to provide the kind of assistance and guidance he had missed as a boy.
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 Salmon P. Chase
The American statesman and jurist, Salmon P. Chase, was born in Cornish township, New Hampshire, on the 13th of January 1808.
At a time when public opinion in Cincinnati was largely dominated by Southern business connections, Chase, influenced probably by James G. Birney, associated himself after about 1836 with the anti-slavery movement, and became recognized as the leader of the political reformers as opposed to the Garrisonian abolitionists.
Chase was one of the ablest political leaders of the Civil War period, and deserves to be placed in the front rank of American statesmen.
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 Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873)
Salmon Portland Chase (January 13, 1808 - May 7, 1873) was a lawyer and politician, antislavery leader before the U.S. Civil War, secretary of the Treasury (1861-64) in Pres.
In 1849 Chase was elected to the United States Senate from Ohio on the Free Soil Party, and in 1855 he was elected governor of Ohio.
Chase's daughter, Kate, was a notable socialite in her own right as the Civil War "Belle of Washington", acting as her father's official hostess and unofficial campaign manager.
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 Salmon Portland Chase biography
Salmon Portland Chase, the ninth of eleven children, was born to Ithmar and Janet (Ralston) Chase, on January 13, 1808, near the banks of the Connecticut River in Cornish, New Hampshire.
Chase first came to Ohio as a boy of twelve to live with his uncle, Bishop Philander Chase, who was appointed President of Cincinnati College in 1822.
In 1849, Chase was elected United States Senator from Ohio where he opposed the extension of slavery into the new territories and led the opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
www.ca6.uscourts.gov /lib_hist/Courts/supreme/judges/spc-bio.html   (615 words)

  
 Salmon Portland Chase Birthplace and Boyhood Home
Chase lived in the house until he was about 8 years old, and it is believed to be the only extant building associated with his life.
Salmon Portland Chase was born in 1808 at Cornish, then a northern frontier community.
Chase failed largely because the delegates believed that he was too closely linked with radical antislavery sentiment.
www.crjc.org /heritage/N08-17.htm   (2230 words)

  
 Short bio of Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice and school teacher
Chase was active in the abolitionist movement, opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and defended fugitive slaves in Ohio.
Chase's had a long tenure as a public man. Twice chosen governor of Ohio (then the third most populous state in the Union), twice elected United States Senator, Chase organized the widespread but diffuse anti-slavery movement into a workable political organization, the Free Soil party (whose slogan "Free Soil, Free Labor, Freemen" Chase coined himself).
Chase as Secretary of the Treasury did important work in Lincoln's war cabinet, and we also follow his many political maneuvers, his attempts to undercut rivals, and his poorly run campaigns for presidential nominations.
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 Salmon P. Chase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Salmon Portland Chase was born in New Hampshire to a prominent family whose roots were established in the early colonial period.
Chase was deeply involved in the antislavery movement.
Chase was elected governor of Ohio in 1855 and was reelected in 1857.
www.oyez.org /oyez/resource/legal_entity/39/biography   (224 words)

  
 Across Five Aprils: People: Salmon Chase
Salmon Portland Chase was born on January 13, 1808, in New Hampshire.
Following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Chase was an early proponent of the formation of the Republican Party.
Chase was capable in his position as Treasury Secretary, but his political ambitions often placed him at odds with the president.
www.kenanderson.net /educate/html/chase3.html   (393 words)

  
 Salmon Chase
Chase, contained these passages, clearly setting forth the issues of a mighty struggle that was to continue for twenty-five years and be closed only by a bloody war: "The constitution found slavery, and left it, a state institution the creature and dependant of state law wholly local in its existence and character.
Chase recommended retrenchment of expenses wherever possible, confiscation of the property of those in arms against the government, an increase of duties and of the tax on spirits, and a national currency, with a system of national banking associations.
Chase published a compilation of the statutes of Ohio, with annotations and an historical sketch (3 vols., Cincinnati, 1832).
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 Chase, Salmon P.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Bishop Chase, having been elected to the Presidency of Cincinnati College, removed to that city for the purpose of entering upon the discharge of the responsible duties thus devolved upon him, taking his nephew with him.
Chase so acquitted himself as to add materially to his already honorable reputation, and inspire general confidence in his learning, skill, readiness, and power as a jurist.
Chase's future by his past, that section of the Union to which he more particularly belongs, will have cause to congratulate itself upon his re-election to the Senate, should it be in the order of events that he is there to take the oath of office.
www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/chase.html   (1522 words)

  
 H-SHGAPE Book Reviews: Niven, editor, The Salmon P. Chase Papers, Volume 5, Correspondence, 1865-1873
Chase's correspondence, as is fitting a person who had served as a United States senator, governor and secretary of the treasury before his appointment to the Supreme Court, focuses mainly on political issues and discussions.
Typically, Chase would listen to their predictions that he was clearly the man for the times, then, while acknowledging that when he was younger he certainly sought the office, he would deny any current desire to lead the nation.
Chase as chief justice was not just there; he often had a front row seat as this superb volume of correspondence amply demonstrates.
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 Ohio Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Chase was well known for his opposition to slavery expansion, and as a U.S. Senator, he opposed the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska bill.
Chase took on a leadership role in the slavery debate.
During the Lincoln administration, Chase served as Secretary of the Treasury and, later, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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 Advice: Salmon Chase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Salmon P. Chase, Ohio senator and Republican leader, would soon be tapped by Lincoln as his secretary of the treasury.
To Chase, Lincoln's victory was a triumph for the Republican party's principles, particularly that of restricting slavery within its present state limits.
Not only were these principles morally correct, but their triumph in the presidential election wa s secured by "a fair and unquestionable majority." To abandon the party's platform would violate the ideal of majority rule and would be denounced by the people as a subversion of the electoral process.
www.tulane.edu /~latner/Dilemmas/DChaseAdvice.html   (204 words)

  
 Salmon P. Chase (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Salmon Chase was born in 1808 in New Hampshire.
The eighth of eleven children of a tavernkeeper and local officeholder, Chase recei ved his early education in a local district school and a private institution.
But widespread support failed to materialize, and at the Republican convention in 1860, Ohio cast its lot with Lincoln, placing Chase in a favorable position for a cabinet post when Lincoln was elected.
www.tulane.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /~latner/Chase.html   (651 words)

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