What is Salmon P. Chase?
{{Infobox US Cabinet official |name= Salmon P. Chase |birth_name=Salmon Portland Chase |image=Mathew_Brady,_Portrait_of_Secretary_of_the_Treasury_Salmon_P._Chase,_officer_of_the_United_States_government_(1860–1865).jpg |imagesize=240px |order=[[Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court#List of Chief Justices|6th]] |title=[[Chief Justice of the United States]] |term_start=December 15, 1864<ref name='fedjudcenter'>{{cite news | title=Federal Judicial Center: Salmon Chase | date=2009-12-12 | url=http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=414 | access-date=2009-12-12 | archive-date=2018-12-25 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225145451/https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=414%20 | url-status=dead }}</ref> |term_end=May 7, 1873 |nominator=[[Abraham Lincoln]] |predecessor=[[Roger B. Taney]] |successor=[[Morrison Waite|Morrison R. Waite]] |order2=25th |title2=[[United States Secretary of the Treasury]] |term_start2=March 7, 1861 |term_end2=June 30, 1864 |president2=[[Abraham Lincoln]] |predecessor2=[[John Adams Dix|John A. Dix]] |successor2=[[William P. Fessenden]] |order3 = 23rd [[Governor of Ohio]] |term_start3 = January 14, 1856 |term_end3 = January 9, 1860 |lieutenant3 = [[Lieutenant Governor of Ohio|Thomas H. Ford]] (1856–1858) <br/> [[Martin Welker]] (1858–1860) |predecessor3 = [[William Medill]] |successor3 = [[William Dennison, Jr.|William Dennison]] |order4 = [[United States Senator]]<br/>from [[Ohio]] |term_start4 = March 4, 1849 |term_end4 = March 3, 1855 |preceded4 = [[William Allen (governor)|William Allen]] |succeeded4 = [[George E. Pugh]] |term_start5 = March 4 |term_end5 = March 7, 1861 |preceded5 = [[George E. Pugh]] |succeeded5 = [[John Sherman (politician)|John Sherman]] |birth_date={{birth date|1808|1|13|mf=y}} |birth_place=[[Cornish, New Hampshire]], U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1873|5|7|1808|1|13}} |death_place=New York City, New York, U.S. |party=[[Free Soil Party|Free Soil]], [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] |spouse =Katherine Garmiss Chase<br/>Eliza A