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Bookmark or Share- Kate Chase - WikipediaKate worked behind the scenes to foster her father's calculated efforts to wrest the 1864 Republican Party nomination for President from Lincoln, but the plot blew up in Chase's face when it became public, requiring Chase to settle back into his Treasury Secretary position.
- Kate Chase Sprague | Civil War, Diplomat, Politician | BritannicaKate Chase Sprague (born Aug. 13, 1840, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—died July 31, 1899, Washington, D.C.) was the daughter of Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of the treasury, Salmon Chase. While continually attempting to advance her father’s political fortunes, she became a national fashion and social celebrity.
- A Report on American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague ...Kate Chase, the charismatic daughter of Abraham Lincoln’s treasury secretary, Salmon P. Chase, enjoyed unprecedented political power for a woman. As her widowed father’s hostess, she set up a rival “court” against Mary Lincoln in hopes of making her father president and herself his First Lady.
- Notable Visitors: Kate Chase Sprague (1840-1899)Daughter of Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, Kate Chase Sprague married Rhode Island Senator William Sprague during the Civil War. She was beautiful, charming, precocious, a leading social figure in Washington at 19, and a top political aide to her father until his death.
- Kate Chase: Washington's 19th Century Supreme - Boundary StonesIn the second half of the 19th century, Kate Chase (1840-1899) was known the country over as the most beautiful and influential woman there ever was in Washington. She occupied the most powerful position in Washington society that a woman could hold, and held sway far beyond her gender.
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