[billbears]

The phrase "In God We Trust" was first placed on U.S. money, in 1864, by the U.S./Union Treasury Secretary, Salmon Chase

Tell us more about ol' Sal why don't you? Tell us what he became next, if you dare, and the two decisions made at his new job during the second half of the 1860s. Tell us also what Sal was like at the beginning of the war, his advice to the tyrant, and his reason for it.

Please tell us, we're all hear to worship the god of the Republican /Whig /Mercantilist party aren't we? I've almost felt sorry for lincoln in the past, almost. But Salmon P. Chase? Never

Sorry stainless, I see Perdue, while presenting a better flag, still sold out

[SCDogPapa]

while presenting a better flag, still sold out

It seems like that is what politicians do best.

[Grand Old Partisan]

Salmon Chase was one of the founders of the Free Soil Party and then of the Republican Party. A Radical Republican, he did a superb job as Treasury Secretary and probably would have been the 1864 GOP presidential nominee had Lincoln not opted for a second term. He resigned from the Cabinet when he did not get the nomination, and President Lincoln then appointed him Chief Justice, replacing the recently deseaced Democrat Chief Justice, Roger Taney, author of the Dred Scott decision. Chase (formerly Chase Manhattan) Bank is named after him.

[lentulusgracchus]

Sorry stainless, I see Perdue, while presenting a better flag, still sold out

I'm afraid I have to agree with billbears, Perdue did not redeem the pledge that made him governor, and which alone will validate his election over "King" Barnes.