Champion S. Chase

Champion Spalding Chase (March 20, 1820–November 3, 1898) was a Nebraska politician. Born in Cornish, New Hampshire, he went on to teach in Amsterdam, New York. He studied law. He moved to Wisconsin and served in the Wisconsin State Senate,^[1] and the Racine, Wisconsin Board of Education. Chase served as a paymaster and was commissioned colonel during the American Civil War.^[2][3]

Chase moved to Nebraska where he became the state's first attorney general, serving from 1867 to 1869. He was a member of the University of Nebraska board of regents from 1869 to 1875. He was elected four times to the position of mayor of Omaha, Nebraska. In 1886 he was unanimously chosen president of the Nebraska State Humane Society. Chase County, Nebraska is named after him.^[4]

References

1. ^ http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lrb/pubs/ib/99ib1.pdf
2. ^ Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Library of American Biography, pg. 599, 1909
3. ^ http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chase.html The two Champion S. Chases listed here are the same man
4. ^ http://www.omahahistory.org/Education_Mayors_Chase.htm

External links

Biography portal

• Champion S. Chase at Find a Grave

Political offices
Preceded by James S. Gibson (acting mayor)	Mayor of Omaha 1874 - 1877	Succeeded by Reuben H. Wilbur
Preceded by Reuben H. Wilbur	Mayor of Omaha 1879 - 1881	Succeeded by James E. Boyd
Preceded by James E. Boyd	Mayor of Omaha 1883 - 1884	Succeeded by Patrick F. Murphy (acting mayor)

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Name	Chase, Champion S.
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Date of birth	1820
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Date of death	1898
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