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 Court1864—1873 25th US Secretary of the Treasury1861—1864 23rd Governor of Ohio1856—1860 US Senator (Class 3) from Ohio 1849—1855US 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 |
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Salmon is living with his 3rd wife and their child Nettie, and his daughter Kate by his second wife. (1940)
Salmon 10 Portland, b. at Cornish, January 13, 1808 (Chase - p16)
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)
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)
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