Roger Brooke Taney was a Chief Justice of the United States, serving from 1836 until his death in 1864. Born in Calvert County, Maryland, in 1777, he read law, served in the Maryland legislature and as the state attorney general, and then held national office under Andrew Jackson as Attorney General of the United States and Secretary of the Treasury. Jackson nominated him to succeed John Marshall in December 1835, and the Senate confirmed him in March 1836. He remained Chief Justice until his death in 1864.
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Source Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857)
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Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the court.
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