American politician and jurist Salmon P. Chase is born in Cornish, New Hampshire. One of few Americans to serve in all three branches of the federal government, Chase represented Ohio in the Senate, served as President Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury from 1861-1864, and was finally appointed by Lincoln to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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