Comments on: The Remarkable But Forgotten Career of Salmon P. Chase http://www.theagitator.com/2012/08/27/the-remarkable-but-forgotten-career-of-salmon-p-chase/ It rankles me when somebody tries to tell somebody what to do. Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:06:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Henry Bowman http://www.theagitator.com/2012/08/27/the-remarkable-but-forgotten-career-of-salmon-p-chase/comment-page-1/#comment-3747054 Henry Bowman Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:24:27 +0000 http://www.theagitator.com/?p=26371#comment-3747054 According to Manber & Dahlstrom (Lincoln’s Wrath), Chase was also one of a couple of prominent members of Lincoln’s cabinet to personally order the imprisonment, without charge, of literally thousands of people who had the temerity to express opinions that he did not like.

]]> By: Kevin R http://www.theagitator.com/2012/08/27/the-remarkable-but-forgotten-career-of-salmon-p-chase/comment-page-1/#comment-3746622 Kevin R Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:08:06 +0000 http://www.theagitator.com/?p=26371#comment-3746622 One of the largest banks in the world is named after him (or post-merger, him and John P. Morgan), so I don’t know about “his name is barely known”.

Also he was on the $10,000 bill.

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