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Chase, Salmon Portland

lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Jan. 13, 1808, in Cornish, N. H. His first public position was that of school examiner in Cincinnati, in 1839; in 1840 was a city councilman; in 1845 projected what was called a liberty convention; and was a member of the freesoil convention held at Buffalo in 1848.

He was a senator in congress, from Ohio, from 1849 to 1855; was elected governor of Ohio in 1855, and re-elected in 1857.

In 1860 he was again chosen a senator in congress. In 1864 he was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of the United States. By virtue of his position as chief justice he presided over the senate while acting as a court of impeachment, during the trial of President Andrew Johnson, in 1868. He died May 7, 1873, in New York city.