Chase, Salmon P.  1808-1873. <br/><br/>
Salmon P. Chase papers, 1755-1898  (bulk 1824-1872). 

 - 12,500  items. 39  1  containers plus  oversize. 38  microfilm reels. 15  linear feet. 
 -  Arranged in 11 series.  Series 1: Diaries, 1829-1870; Series 2: Family Correspondence, 1821-1872; Series 3: General Correspondence, 1810-1898; Series 4: Letterbooks and Letterpress Copybooks, 1833-1873; Series 5: Speeches and Writings, 1849-1866; Series 6: Financial Papers, 1774-1873; Series 7: Legal File, 1755-1872; Series 8: Miscellany, 1840-1896; Series 9: Special Indexes; Series 10: Additions, 1850-1858; and Series 11: Oversize, 1840. 
<br/><br/> Open to research. 
<br/><br/> Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, writings, financial and legal papers, biographical material, and other material pertaining to Chase's service as a U.S. senator from Ohio, as a member of Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, as U.S. secretary of the treasury, and as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.  Also includes material relating to his law practice in Cincinnati, Ohio, and to his activities as an abolitionist.  Subjects include the Liberty Party, Ohio state and national politics, the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), the Civil War, national finance and the development of a national banking system, creation of a national currency, the trial and impeachment of Andrew Johnson, and Reconstruction.  Correspondents include Daniel Ammen, Flamen Ball, Dwight Bannister, James Gillespie Birney, George Carlisle, Henry Beebee Carrington, Edward I. Chase, Philander Chase, William F. Chase, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jay Cooke, George S. Denison, Rachel Denison, Hamilton Fish, James A. Garfield, Horace Greeley, Edward Stowe Hamlin, Joshua Hanna, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, George Hoadly, Janet Ralston Chase Hoyt, John Jay, Andrew Johnson, Reverdy Johnson, A. Sankey Latty, Joshua Leavitt, Simeon Nash, George Opdyke, Richard Chappell Parsons, William S. Rosecrans, J. W. Schuckers, William Henry Seward, J. Ralston Skinner, Gerrit Smith, Hamilton Smith, Kate Chase Sprague, William Sprague, Charles Sumner, and James W. Taylor. 
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<br/><br/><br/>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. <br/>Washington, D.C. : <br/>Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, <br/>1980. 
<br/><br/><br/>Abolitionist, lawyer, U.S senator and governor of Ohio, U.S. secretary of the treasury, and U.S. Supreme Court chief justice. 
<br/><br/><br/>Collection material in English. 
<br/><br/> Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006011  Partial index to correspondence available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room. 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>mm 79015610  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Ammen, Daniel, 1820-1898 --Correspondence.<br/>Ball, Flamen--Correspondence.<br/>Bannister, Dwight--Correspondence.<br/>Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857 --Correspondence.<br/>Carlisle, George--Correspondence.<br/>Carrington, Henry Beebee, 1824-1912 --Correspondence.<br/>Chase, Edward I.--Correspondence.<br/>Chase, Philander, 1775-1852 --Correspondence.<br/>Chase, William F.--Correspondence.<br/>Clay, Cassius Marcellus, 1810-1903 --Correspondence.<br/>Cooke, Jay, 1821-1905 --Correspondence.<br/>Denison, George S. 1833-1866 --Correspondence.<br/>Denison, Rachel--Correspondence.<br/>Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893 --Correspondence.<br/>Garfield, James A. 1831-1881 --Correspondence.<br/>Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 --Correspondence.<br/>Hamlin, Edward Stowe, 1808-1894 --Correspondence.<br/>Hanna, Joshua--Correspondence.<br/>Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893 --Correspondence.<br/>Hoadly, George, 1826-1902 --Correspondence.<br/>Hoyt, Janet Ralston Chase, 1847-1925 --Correspondence.<br/>Jay, John, 1817-1894 --Correspondence.<br/>Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 --Correspondence.<br/>Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 --Impeachment.<br/>Johnson, Reverdy, 1796-1876 --Correspondence.<br/>Latty, A. Sankey--Correspondence.<br/>Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873 --Correspondence.<br/>Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. <br/>Nash, Simeon, 1804-1879 --Correspondence.<br/>Opdyke, George, 1805-1880 --Correspondence.<br/>Parsons, Richard Chappell, 1826-1899 --Correspondence.<br/>Rosecrans, William S. 1819-1898 --Correspondence.<br/>Schuckers, J. W. 1831-1901 --Correspondence.<br/>Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 --Correspondence.<br/>Skinner, J. Ralston--Correspondence.<br/>Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874 --Correspondence.<br/>Smith, Hamilton--Correspondence.<br/>Sprague, Kate Chase, 1840-1899 --Correspondence.<br/>Sprague, William, 1830-1915 --Correspondence.<br/>Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 --Correspondence.<br/>Taylor, James W. 1819-1893 --Correspondence.<br/>Chase family.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. Kansas-Nebraska Act. <br/>United States. Department of the Treasury.  Office of the Secretary. <br/>United States. Supreme Court. <br/>Liberty Party (U.S. : 1840-1848)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Antislavery movements--United States.<br/>Banks and banking--United States.<br/>Constitutional law--United States.<br/>Currency question--United States.<br/>Finance, Public--United States.<br/>Law--United States.<br/>National banks (United States)<br/>Practice of law--Ohio--Cincinnati.<br/>Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)<br/>Slavery--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Ohio--Politics and government--1787-1865.<br/>United States--Appropriations and expenditures.<br/>United States--Economic policy--To 1933.<br/>United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.<br/>United States--History--Campaigns.--Civil War, 1861-1865<br/>United States--History--1865-1898.<br/>United States--Politics and government--1849-1877.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Occupation: </label><br/>Abolitionists.<br/>Cabinet officers.<br/>Governors--Ohio.<br/>Jurists.<br/>Lawyers.<br/>Senators, U.S. Congress.