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American queen book6/2/2023 She moved easily between the worlds of high fashion, adorning herself in the most regal Parisian gowns, and politics, managing her father’s presidential campaigns. To facilitate that goal, she married one of the richest men in the country, the handsome boy governor” of Rhode Island, in the social event of the Civil War. As her widowed father's hostess, she set up a rival court” against Mary Lincoln in hopes of making her father president and herself his First Lady. Chase, Lincoln's treasury secretary, Kate Chase enjoyed unprecedented political power for a woman. Had People magazine been around during the Civil War and after, Kate Chase would have made its Most Beautiful” and Most Intriguing” lists every year.
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