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  • I confess I had never heard of him before. "Salmon Portland Chase (January 13, 1808 – May 7, 1873) was an American politician and jurist in the Civil War era who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and Governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as Chief Justice of the United States. Chase articulated the "Slave Power conspiracy" thesis well before Lincoln did, and he coined the slogan of the Free Soil Party, "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men." He devoted his enormous energies to the destruction of what he considered the Slave Power — the conspiracy of Southern slave owners to seize control of the federal government and block the progress of liberty." Source and more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_P_Chase
  • Not sure as to what he did to get on the $10,000 bill, but he is a popular New Hampshire historical figure. He was a man, slight in stature, who very briefly taught school in a one-room schoolhouse in the hamlet of Roxbury, NH (right around the corner from my hometown). Local folklore tells us that his rowdy crop of backwoods New Hampshirite students once lifted him up and put him outside in a snowbank. He was turned off from teaching after that, and went into politics.

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