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1046388
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b800758
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| Main Entry
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Niven, John.
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| Title & Author
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Salmon P. Chase : : a biography /\ John Niven.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1995.
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1 online resource (xii, 546 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0195046536
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: 1280439815
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: 1423736125
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: 1601296401
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: 9780195046533
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: 9781280439810
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: 9781423736127
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: 9781601296405
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0195046536
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-528) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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.
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Chase, Salmon P., (Salmon Portland),1808-1873.
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Chase, Salmon P., (Salmon Portland),1808-1873.
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United States.
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United States.
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Governors-- Ohio, Biography.
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Judges-- United States, Biography.
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Legislators-- United States, Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.
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Governors.
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HISTORY-- State Local-- General.
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HISTORY-- State Local.
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Judges.
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Legislators.
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Politics and government
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United States, Politics and government, 1849-1877.
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Ohio.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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977.1/03/092
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| LC Classification
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E415.9.C4N58 1995eb
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