From Anti-Slavery Lawyer to Chief Justice: The Remarkable Career of Salmon P. Chase
Date of Event
9-27-2012
Description
September 27, 2012
From Anti-Slavery Lawyer to Chief Justice: The Remarkable Career of Salmon P. Chase
Sumner Canary Lecture
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Randy E. Barnett Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory Georgetown Law Center
The remarkable career of Ohioan Salmon P. Chase deserves to be remembered. Beginning as a young lawyer defending runaway slaves in Cincinnati, Ohio, Chase went on to serve as Senator from Ohio as a Free Soiler, Governor of Ohio as a Republican, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, Secretary of the Treasury under President Lincoln, and Chief Justice of the United States. In all these roles, he relentlessly pursued the goal of liberty and equality for all Americans, white and black, male and female.
Lecture Series
Sumner Canary Lecture
Subject Headings
Salmon P. Chase; liberty and equality; civil rights; emancipation of slaves; civil rights for African Americans; civil rights for women; civil rights--history
Location
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Document Type
Video
Recommended Citation
Barrett, Randy E., "From Anti-Slavery Lawyer to Chief Justice: The Remarkable Career of Salmon P. Chase" (2012). Conferences and Symposia. 457.
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/law_videos_general/457