In New York , he taught at the Academy in Amsterdam , New York from 1841 to 1842 . By 1843 he had moved to Otsego County to be the vice principal of the West Hartwick Seminary . He resided in New York until the end of the 1840s and studied law in Buffalo . In 1848 he was admitted to the bar at Canandaigua and , in 1849 , he moved to Racine , Wisconsin . In Wisconsin , Chase became involved in politics . He attended the first Republican National Convention in 1856 as part of the delegation from Wisconsin . The convention nominated John C. Frémont as the Republican candidate for the presidency in the 1856 election . The same year , Chase ran for the Wisconsin State Senate and was elected to a two year term , representing Racine County . During his second year in the Senate , he served as chairman of the judiciary committee and supervised the revision of the statutes of the state . In 1859 , he was elected Prosecuting Attorney for the 1st judicial district in Wisconsin . That same year , he was elected President of the Board of Education for the city of Racine . Also in 1859 , Chase was appointed Brigadier General of the Wisconsin State Militia , by Governor Alexander Randall
Republican National Convention
1856 Republican National Convention
Champion S. Chase