Kate Chase

Deceased Person

1840 – 1899

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Who was Kate Chase?

Katherine Jane Chase Sprague was the daughter of Ohio politician Salmon P. Chase, Treasury Secretary during President Abraham Lincoln's first administration and later Chief Justice of the United States. She was a Washington society hostess during the American Civil War, a strong supporter of her widowed father's presidential ambitions that would have made her First Lady, and wife of Rhode Island Governor William Sprague.

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Born
Aug 13, 1840
Ohio
Spouses
Nationality
  • United States of America
Died
Jul 31, 1899
Washington, D.C.
Resting place
Spring Grove Cemetery

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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