The author of the Ex Parte Milligan decision as chief justice after Roger Brooke Taney, FTP, name this Secretary of the Treasury under Abraham Lincoln.
His daughter, Kate Sprague, scandalized his friends when she had an affair with Roscoe Conkling. A protege of William Wirt, he wrote the Supreme Court's opinion in Texas v. White, declaring secession unconstitutional, years after his advocacy in the van Zandt case won him the nickname "attorney general for fugitive slaves." He drafted the Free Soil party's 1848 platform and was elected governor of Ohio in 1855, before losing the 1860 GOP nomination to Lincoln. The author of the Ex Parte Milligan decision as chief justice after Roger Brooke Taney, FTP, name this Secretary of the Treasury under Abraham Lincoln.
His daughter, Kate Sprague, scandalized his friends when she had an affair with Roscoe Conkling.
Salmon Portland {Chase}