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Salmon Portland Chase 1808-73 American public official and jurist 6th Chief Justice of the United States (1864-73) b. Cornish N.H. Admitted to the bar in 1829 he defended runaway blacks so often that he became known as "attorney general for fugitive slaves." ...

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