Kate Chase

Kate Chase

Katherine Jane ("Kate") Chase Sprague (August 13, 1840 – July 31, 1899) 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.

Read more about Kate Chase:  Early Life, Life in Washington, Marriage and Divorce, Political Action, Later Years

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