Salmon Portland Chase

1808 - 1873  (65 years)

• Name	Salmon Portland Chase
  Born	1808
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
  Died	1873
  Person ID	I6220	Ancestors & Descendants of the immigrant Edward Hall
  Last Modified	5 Aug 2000

  
  

  Father	Deceased,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Living
  Family ID	F4326	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Chief Justice, U. S. Senator, Secretary of the Treasury. Cabinet member, Supreme Court chief justice; born in Cornish, N.H. A lawyer in Cincinnati, Ohio, he was an active abolitionist, known as "the attorney general for runaway Negroes." He served as governor of Ohio (1855--60) and was twice elected to the U.S. Senate (Dem./Free-Soil, 1849--53; Rep., 1860--61). He resigned to serve as Lincoln's secretary of the treasury during the Civil War (1861--64). A vocal cabinet member who often disagreed with Lincoln over slavery issues and military matters, he attempted to resign three times before Lincoln accepted his fourth offer (1864) after a radical faction called for Chase to replace Lincoln as the Republican candidate. Upon his re-election and despite their differences, Lincoln appointed him Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1864--73). Despite his strong personal antipathy to slavery and secession, he made a number of impartial decisions during the Reconstruction and reluctantly but scrupulously presided over the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson.