Salmon Portland Chase: Secretary of Treasury and Chief Justice Supreme Court

The second largest (first is Woodrow Wilson - $1000,000 bill) United States denomination currency is $10,000 bill, has the picture of Secretary of Treasury Salmon P. Chase, (Also, his face appears on $1.00 and $10.00 notes printed in 1860s) serving in President Abraham Lincoln's administration. These bills were printed from 1928 - 1864. In 1861, Salmon P. Chase began serving as the Secretary of the Treasury. In 1864, he was appointed sixth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. During that time he was Chief Justice, he presided over the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson and the Reconstruction Period. Also, he drafted two clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, signed into law in 1868, which extended citizenship rights to all people born or naturalized in the United States. He departed the Chief Justice position in 1873.

Salmon P. Chase, born in Cornish, New Hampshire on January 13, 1808, nine of eleven children, and from a prominent family, whose roots were established in early, during the colonial period. His father died, when Chase was nine years old. In 1820, Chase moved to his uncle Philander Chase's farm in Worthington, Ohio. His uncle was an Episcopal bishop and President of Cincinnati College, were Chase was enrolled. In 1826, Salmon P. Chase, graduated from Dartmouth College at the age of eighteen, and Phi Beta Kappa. Four years later, he was admitted to the Ohio bar and September of 1830, he opened his law practice, in a new brick office on Third Street. As young practicing lawyer, began collecting and annotating all the laws of Ohio from 1788. This is revealed in a publication, of three volumes set of the Statues of Ohio in 1833. He was deeply devoted helping the abolitionist movement and became known as "Attorney General for Fugitive Slaves," by defending escaped slaves. His moral and religious background formed his beliefs, helping to defend escaped slaves.