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Collection Summary
Title | Salmon P. Chase papers, 1755-1898 |
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Span Dates | 1755-1898 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1824-1872) |
ID No. | MSS15610 |
Creator | Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 |
Extent | 12,500 items |
Extent | 39 containers plus 1 oversize |
Extent | 15 linear feet |
Extent | 38 microfilm reels |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006011 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79015610 |
Summary | Abolitionist, lawyer, United States senator, governor of Ohio, United States secretary of the treasury, and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, writings, financial and legal papers, biographical material, and other papers pertaining to Chase's career and personal life. Topics include Chase's activities as an abolitionist, his law practice in Cincinnati, membership in the Liberty Party, involvement in national and state politics as United States senator and governor of Ohio, the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), events and military operations of the Civil War, formulation of wartime policy as a member of Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, work as United States secretary of the treasury on problems of national finance and the development of a national banking system, his service as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, trial and impeachment of Andrew Johnson, Reconstruction, and creation of a national currency. |
Online Content | The papers of Salmon P. Chase are available on the Library of Congress Web site at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000036. |