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Chase, Salmon Portland

(Encyclopedia) Chase, Salmon Portland, 1808–73, American public official and jurist, 6th chief justice of the United States (1864–73), b. Cornish, N.H. Admitted to the bar in 1829, he defended…

Salmon Portland CHASE, Congress, OH (1808-1873)

Senate Years of Service: 1849-1855; 1861-1861 Party: Free Soil; Republican CHASE Salmon Portland , a Senator from Ohio; born in Cornish, N.H., January 13, 1808; attended schools at Windsor, Vermont…

Donald, David Herbert

(Encyclopedia) Donald, David Herbert, 1920–2009, American historian, b. Goodman, Miss. After receiving his Ph.D. from the Univ. of Illinois in 1946, he taught at Columbia (1947–49; 1951–59), Smith (…

Free-Soil party

(Encyclopedia) Free-Soil party, in U.S. history, political party that came into existence in 1847–48 chiefly because of rising opposition to the extension of slavery into any of the territories newly…

Hart, Albert Bushnell

(Encyclopedia) Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854–1943, American historian, b. Clarksville, Greene co., Pa. He began teaching history at Harvard in 1883, became a full professor in 1897, and from 1910 until…

Brewer's: Salmon

as food for servants. At one time apprentices and servants stipulated that they should not be obliged to feed on salmon more than five days in a week. Salmon was one penny a pound. “A…

Martin, Luther

(Encyclopedia) Martin, Luther, c.1748–1826, American lawyer and political leader, b. New Brunswick, N.J. He practiced law in Maryland and became the first attorney general of the state, holding…

salmon, in zoology

(Encyclopedia) salmonsalmonsămˈən [key], member of the Salmonidae, a family of marine fish that spawn in freshwater, including the salmons, the trouts, and the chars (subfamily Salmoninae), the…

Cabinet Members Under Lincoln

Secretary of State William H. Seward, 1861Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, 1861William P. Fessenden, 1864Hugh McCulloch, 1865Secretary of War Simon Cameron, 1861Edwin M. Stanton,…

Baker, Josephine

(Encyclopedia) Baker, Josephine, 1906–75, African-American dancer and singer, b. St. Louis, Mo., as Freda Josephine McDonald. In 1923 and 1924 she…