Samuel Chase Quotations

Samuel Chase

Supreme Court Justice
Samuel Chasewas an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and earlier was a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland. Early in life, Chase was a "firebrand" states-righter and revolutionary. His political views changed over his lifetime, and, in the last decades of his career, he became well known as a staunch Federalist and was impeached on grounds of letting his partisan leanings affect his court decisions. He was acquitted by the... (wikipedia)
- Born in Somerset County, MD
- Died On 6/19/1811