Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-528) and index.
1. Threshold; 2. Trials and Triumphs; 3. The Young Professional; 4. Upward Bound; 5. A Distant Shore; 6. To Recognize the Distinctions; 7. Climbing the Slippery Pole; 8. "Free Soil, Free Labor and Free Men, "; 9. Among the Great; 10. Mid-passage; 11. Independent Democrat; 12. An Uncertain Future; 13. On the Campaign Trail; 14. As Others See Us; 15. For the Good of the Party; 16. Defeat at the Summit; 17. Visit to Springfield; 18. Loaves and Fishes; 19. War; 20. No Other Recourse; 21. Military Moves and Missions; 22. High Stakes; 23. Emancipation with Exceptions; 24. Mixed Results.
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A biography of Salmon P. Chase, one of the principal political figures in the American Civil War period. A rival to Abraham Lincoln for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1860, he subsequently became Secretary of the Treasury in Lincoln's war-time cabinet.
Salmon P. Chase.
Chase, Salmon P., (Salmon Portland),1808-1873.
Chase, Salmon P., (Salmon Portland),1808-1873.
United States.
United States.
Governors-- Ohio, Biography.
Judges-- United States, Biography.
Legislators-- United States, Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.
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HISTORY-- State & Local-- General.
HISTORY-- State & Local.
Judges.
Legislators.
Politics and government
United States, Politics and government, 1849-1877.