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Salmon Chase

Lincoln’s secretary of the treasury helped win the Civil War with his many financial innovations and was an ardent advocate of emancipation.

Editor's Note: Walter Stahr is a historian whose essay “The Struggles of Edwin Stanton” appeared in the Fall 2017 issue of American Heritage.

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