to Salmon Chase

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 to Salmon Chase

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GLC#
GLC01989
Type
Letters
Date
2 June 1862
Author/Creator
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Title
to Salmon Chase
Place Written
Washington, District of Columbia
Pagination
1 p. : docket Height: 16.5 cm, Width: 12.5 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to send in the name of George W. Lane of Indiana as his choice for superintendent of the United States Mint at Denver, Colorado. Written on Executive Mansion stationery. According to Basler (5: 256), Chase opposed Lane's nomination, and Lincoln did not send it to Congress until January 1863. Lane's tenure at the Denver Mint marked the end of private coinage in the United States.

Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. V 1861 -1862,
p. 256

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