Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873)
1860-1900
Gardner
USA: Washington, D.C.
Photograph on paper mounted on board
overall: 4 x 2 6/16 in.; 10.16 x 6.0325 cm
Gift of Mrs. Doris Hudson May
78.14.12.25

Carte-de-visite photograph; portrait of Salmon P. Chase sitting in wooden chair, wearing coat and suit, white hair, balding, hands on lap, looking to left of photograph; printed on back "GARDNER / Corner 7th & D Str. / WASHINGTON / D. C."; written in pencil above photographer information "Chase."

Salmon P. Chase served as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln from 1861 to 1864. He then became the sixth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, serving in that position from 1864 to 1873.