As a senator, he once came to blows with James Mason and Jefferson Davis at the same time.  While serving in the cabinet, he issued the first legal-tender paper currency not backed by gold, the greenback.  In 1848 he helped found the Free Soil Party and ran on their ticket seven years later to become governor of his home state, Ohio.  Within the next decade he became Lincoln's secretary of the treasury.   Famously dissenting in the Slaughterhouse
As a senator, he once came to blows with James Mason and Jefferson Davis at the same time.  While serving in the cabinet, he issued the first legal-tender paper currency not backed by gold, the greenback.  In 1848 he helped found the Free Soil Party and ran on their ticket seven years later to become governor of his home state, Ohio.  Within the next decade he became Lincoln's secretary of the treasury.   Famously dissenting in the Slaughterhouse Cases, FTP, name this man who presided over the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson as Supreme Court Chief Justice.
As a senator, he once came to blows with James Mason and Jefferson Davis at the same time.  
Salmon Portland Chase