Salmon Portland Chase (1808 - 1873)

Born 13 Jan 1808 in Cornish, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Katherine Jane (Garniss) Chase — married 4 Mar 1834 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio

Husband of Sarah Bella Dunlop (Ludlow) Chase — married 11 Jun 1846 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, USA

Descendants

Died 7 May 1873 at age 65 in New York, New York, New York, USA

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Preceded by 5th Chief Justice Roger B. Taney Preceded by 24th Secretary John Adams Dix Preceded by 22nd Governor William Medill Preceded by William Allen Preceded by George E. Pugh

Salmon P. Chase 6th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court 1864—1873 25th US Secretary of the Treasury 1861—1864 23rd Governor of Ohio 1856—1860 US Senator (Class 3) from Ohio 1849—1855 US Senator (Class 3) from Ohio[1] 1860

Succeeded by 7th Chief Justice Morrison Waite Succeeded by 26th Secretary William P. Fessenden Succeeded by 24th Governor William Dennison, Jr. Succeeded by George E. Pugh Succeeded by John Sherman

Biography

Salmon Chase is Notable.

• Attended Cincinnati College in 1822.
• Graduated from Dartmouth College, Class of 1826 at Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
• First interrred in May 1873 at Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, and re-interred at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio in October 1866

Note H3978

Salmon is living with his 3rd wife and their child Nettie, and his daughter Kate by his second wife. (1940)

Note N3864

Salmon 10 Portland, b. at Cornish, January 13, 1808 (Chase - p16)

The Hon. Salmon Portland 10 Chase, now Chief Justice of the United States, was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1826, with high honors.

He was a Senator of the United states, from 1849 to 1855; Governor of Ohio, form 1855-1859; again a United States Senator in 1861; Secretary of the Treasury, from 1861 to 1864; and was appointed Chief Justice of the United States in 1865.

He married, 1st, Catherine Jane Garniss, March 4, 1834; 2nd, Eliza Ann Smith, September 26, 1839; 3rd, Sarah Bella Dunlop Ludlow, November 6, 1846, and has several children, one of whom is the wife of the Hon. William Sprague, United States Senator from Rhode Island (Chase - p17)

CHASE, Salmon Portland, (1808 - 1873)

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Senate Years of Service: 1849-1855; 1861-1861

Party: Free Soil; Republican

Library of Congress

CHASE, 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.

He 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.

He was 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.

He was 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.

He was a 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. (Biographical Directory of United Stats Congress)

Family

Wife: Catherine Jane Garniss 05 MAR 1834

Wife: Eliza Ann Smith 26 SEP 1839

Child: Lizzie Chase

Child: Catherine Jane Chase

Wife: Sarah Bella Dunlop Ludlow 11 JUN 1846 at Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio

Child: Janet Ralston Chase

Child: Josephine Ludlow Chase

Public Service

• Elected to City Council of Cincinnati, Ohio in 1840 as Whig
• Elected to the US Senate in 1849 to 1855 for 1 term on the Free Soil ticket
• Elected Governor of Ohio for 2 terms, 1856 to 1860 as the first Republican to win the Ohio Governorship.
• Elected to the US Senate in 1860. Served 3 days of term in 1861 when President Lincoln appointed him as the 25th Secretary of the Treasury and served until 1864. In 1864 President Lincoln nominated him, and the Senate confirmed him as the 6th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court where he served until his death in 1873.

Legacy

• Chase County, Kansas is named in his honor.

Sources

1. ↑ Resigned to become U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, vacant March 6, 1861 – March 21, 1861 when successor elected.

See also:

• Find A Grave: Memorial #192 accessed on 17 Aug 2018
• Biographical Directory of United States Congress
• Genealogical Memoir of the Chase Family of Chesham, Bucks, in England, and of Hampton and Newbury in New England, with Notices of Some of Their Descendants by George B. Chase. HW Dutton & Son, Boston, MA (1869)
• 1860 United States Federal Census via Ancestry.com
• American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) vis Ancestry.com
• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Yates Publishing @ Ancestry.com