The Bank Note Gallery | Salmon Portland Chase's portrait on US Currency

Birthplace: Cornish, New Hampshire
Parents: Ithamar Chase and Janette Ralston
Brothers and Sisters: Salmon was the eighth of eleven children
Education: 1821, entered Cincinnati College
December 14, 1829: With minimal legal preparation, admitted to the bar
Date of First Marriage: Katherine Jane Garniss on March 4, 1834
Date of Second Marriage: Eliza Ann Smith on September 26, 1839
Date of Third Marriage: Sarah Bella Dunlop Ludlow on November 6, 1846
Children born to Three Marriages: Six daughters, four died in infancy
Political Career: Nicknamed "Attorney-General for Runaway Negroes"
1848: Active in the Free Soil Movement, Presiding at the Buffalo Convention, which drafted the platform "No more slave states and no more slave territory."
February 22, 1849: Elected to United States Senate
Election of 1860: Received only 49 out of 465 votes for the presidency, when defeat was apparent, gave his votes to Lincoln, who won the election
February 25, 1863: Established the National Banking System (Greenbacks)
March 1861-July 1864: Appointed Secretary of the Treasury
1864: Appointed Chief Justice by President Lincoln
April 15, 1865: Administered the Presidential Oath to Andrew Johnson
Age at Death: 65 years
Place of Death: New York City, New York
Interred: Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
Reinterred: Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio

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