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Did Salmon Portland Chase serve as Chief Justice of the United States?

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Chase failed in his effort to secure the presidential nomination but he remained an important national figure and on Dec. 6 1864 after the death of Roger B. Taney Lincoln appointed Chase Chief Justice of the United States.

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