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SALMON P. CHASE: A BIOGRAPHY
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| By: |
John Niven |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195046536 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195046533 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1995 |
| Pages: |
576 |
| Description: |
Salmon P. Chase was one of the principal political figures in the Civil War period. A rival of Abraham Lincoln for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1860, he subsequently became Secretary of the Treasury in Lincoln's wartime cabinet. Later Lincoln appointed him Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, where he presided over the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. |
| Synopsis: |
A fascinating, authorative biography of one of the major political figures of American Civil War period. |
| Illustrations: |
16 pp halftones |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
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