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  1. Cabinet and Vice Presidents. President Lincoln’s cabinet included all of his major rivals for the Republican nomination for President in 1860—William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Simon Cameron and Edward Bates.

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      Footnotes. Elizabeth Todd Grimsley, “Six Months in the White...

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      Osborn Oldroyd, The Lincoln Memorial: Album-immortelles, pp....

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      On one occasion in December 1862, Senate Republican leaders...

  2. During the Civil War, Chase served as Secretary of the Treasury in President Lincoln's cabinet from 1861 to 1864. In that period of crisis, there were two great changes in American financial policy: the establishment of a national banking system and the issue of paper currency .

  3. Mr. Lincoln added that “I must do the right thing in this critical hour.” 91 President Lincoln had apparently decided to appoint Chase to the Supreme Court, however, even before Chase resigned from his Cabinet in June. “On the very day he resigned, Congressman Samuel Hooper from Massachusetts dropped into his office with arresting news.

  4. Feb 2, 2023 · By Ellen Fried. Courtesy Simon & Schuster. In 1860, prairie lawyer and former one-term congressman Abraham Lincoln stunned the country by prevailing over three prominent rivals—William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, and Edward Bates—to win the Republican nomination for President. Perhaps equally surprising was what Lincoln did after being ...

  5. Lincoln nonetheless keeps Chase in the cabinet until 1864 for his skill at financing the war effort, and his efforts to undermine the president are ultimately unsuccessful. Lincoln also recruits Chase ally Edwin M. Stanton to replace Pennsylvania political boss Simon Cameron as Secretary of War ; like Seward, Stanton comes to respect and ...

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  7. May 29, 2020 · First, Lincoln selected former Republican Party rivals for three of the most important cabinet positions: Senator William H. Seward of New York became the secretary of state, Governor Salmon P. Chase of Ohio became secretary of treasury, and Missouri’s elder statesman Edward Bates became the attorney general.

  8. Dec 18, 2009 · Abraham Lincoln’s Inner Circle: Family, Friends, Cabinet and Others. In this interactive guide, meet the people most important to America’s 16th president. EXPLORE NOW. Salmon P. Chase:...

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