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Salmon P. Chase and money.

The article states that Chief Justice Chase ruled that certain parts of the legal tender measures were unconsitutional.

The point here is that Salmon P. Chase did not support fiat money. He introduced it as a crises measure during the Civil War - not with the view to make it part of the American scene. To write of the introduction (as the article does)as a great achievement is an OPINION (and not the opinion of Salmon P. Chase). As for Chase being on the old ten thousand Dollar bill - this is a similar thing to President Andrew Jackson (another "hard money" man) being on a bill - neither person would have regarded it as an honour (rather the reverse).

Paul Marks.


Secretary of the Mint? Do we mean Secretary of the Treasury, or Treasurer of the United States? Anonymous, can you give us more detail in these many, many articles you're creating? -- Zoe

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[edit] Chase's daughter

Is her name "Kate," or is that short for something? Did she have a middle name? Is she worthy of her own Wikipedia article? How about her two suitors? --clawson

Kate needs her own entry. Rjensen 23:24, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Salmon Portland Chase had TWO daughters named Katherine. The first was born 16 Nov 1835 and died 6 Feb 1840. The second, by his second wife, was born 13 Aug 1840, married 12 Nov 1863 to Governor William Sprague of Rhode Island, and died 31 Jul 1899. I am a relative of theirs, which is why I have the information and am unsure about the appropriateness of me making actual entries in the main encyclopedia about them. You will find Kate mentioned in the entry in Wikipedia about her husband, along with a link to her own page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sprague_%281830-1915%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Chase Wisconsinator (talk) 03:13, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ships and Building named for

--meatclerk 08:28, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

--meatclerk 08:54, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Harper's Cartoon 1864 at Dartmouth.edu

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/Library_Bulletin/Apr1997/Wait.html See Figure 13 & 14. (16 July 1864)

--meatclerk 08:28, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Link to "Money Masters"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seemed out of place. I removed it, but we may certainly discuss.--TurabianNights 13:22, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chase and Lincoln

I'm suprised more has not been made of Chase's ambitions to be president and how he spent a lot of his time while acting and tresurer trying to secure support for himself and how he worked quit ehard agaist Lincon to be become the choosen candiate. I know it mentions the thrre resignation letters that he put up that were denied by lincon but there is qutie a bit to mention why he did this.

Also his relationship with his daughter Kate is a very improtant one, as she had to take the place of his dead wife in social function and was almsot indespensible to him, so much so it caused soem problems when she got married as to how he was goign to look after himself etc.

This can all be seen in the book " A Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Philbentley 21:53, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree that the information of this document is a bit questionable. However, the neutrality of Ms. Goodwin's book is a bit biased toward Lincoln's side as well. While the evidence shows that Chase did have his quirks, I would not entirely lean on antecdotal information provided by "Team of Rivals". Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed the book, and it does give a lot of facts. However, Doris was apparently picky about what facts she wanted to present to tell her story. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this in a Biography, but for an encyclopedia, there needs to be a bit more neutrality. I'll do my best to clean up the neutrality of this document in the next few weeks. --GonzosTorment 01:00, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re: Chase and "In God We Trust"

Where is the cite for that? Were those words not added to our currency in the 1950s? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ben Manski (talk • contribs) 19:06, 19 September 2007 (UTC)


Don't get so excited.  that was under god.  but heres something to argue about. 
  there are 3 non-presidents on us money.  name them.  I'll be back.  alright you don't know.  ben franklinhiemer, alex hamiltonhiemer and salmon p. chasenhiemer.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.122.62.231 (talk) 22:24, 7 November 2007 (UTC)


By the way. You're right. under god could have been in the '50s. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.122.62.231 (talk) 22:30, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Found a source: [1] --Son of lucas (talk) 09:01, 13 January 2008 (UTC)