Salmon P. Chase |
Salmon P. Chase was the notable Founder of the Cincinnati Law School.
His career as an attorney was marked by his increasing prominence
in the anti-slavery movement. In 1848 he was elected to the US Senate
and in 1855 became the first Republican Governor of Ohio. Lincoln
named him Secretary of the Treasury, and he had the enormous task
of financing the Civil War. He founded the Internal Revenue Service
and created the National Banking System. He was also appointed as
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and he conducted two of the most
spectacular trials in history - the treason trial of Jefferson Davis
and the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson. He died in 1873.
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