Champion Spalding Chase was a Nebraska

Nebraska

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 politician

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. Born in Cornish, New Hampshire

Cornish, New Hampshire

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, he went on to teach in Amsterdam, New York. He studied law. He moved to Wisconsin and served in the Wisconsin State Senate

Wisconsin State Senate

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, and the Racine, Wisconsin

Racine, Wisconsin

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 Board of Education. Chase served as a paymaster and was commissioned colonel during the American Civil War

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Chase moved to Nebraska where he became the state's first attorney general

Nebraska Attorney General

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, 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

Mayor

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 of Omaha, Nebraska

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. In 1886 he was unanimously chosen president of the Nebraska State Humane Society. Chase County, Nebraska

Chase County, Nebraska

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 4,068 people, 1,662 households, and 1,163 families residing in the county. The population density was 4 people per square mile . There were 1,927 housing units at an average density of 2 per square mile...

 is named after him.

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