CHASE 437 CHASE Liberty party, and a leading spirit in the Free-Soil and Republican parties. In 1849 he was elected to the United States Senate; in 1855 Governor of Ohio; in CHASE, WILLIAM MERRITT, an American artist, born in Franklin, Ind., Nov. 1, 1849, He studied painting in oil at the National Academy in New York 1860 was a prominent candidate for the and subsequently in Europe with Piloty. Republican Presidential nomination; ap- He made a specialty of portraits, fi^re CATHEDRAL AT CHARTRES pointed Secretary of the Treasury by pieces, and still life. Examples of his President Lincoln, in 1861, and in 1864 art are to be found in many public and became Chief Justice, in which office he private galleries in this country. He presided at the impeachment trial of was elected a National Academician in President Johnson. He died in New 1890. Besides having been one of the York City, May 7, 1873, most brilliant technicians of the Ameri-
