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Roger B. Taney (born , Calvert county, Maryland, U.S.—died , Washington, D.C.) was the fifth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, remembered principally for the Dred Scott decision (1857). He was the first Roman Catholic to serve on the Supreme Court.
Roger Brooke Taney was born in 1777 to a wealthy, slave-owning tobacco plantation family in Calvert County, Maryland. As a younger son, he was not destined to inherit the family land, so he was steered toward a career in law. He graduated from Dickinson College, studied law, and quickly established himself as one of Maryland's most skilled ...
Chief Justice Roger Taney joined the U.S. Supreme Court on , replacing Chief Justice John Marshall. Taney was born on on a plantation in Calvert County, Maryland.
On , in the case of Dred Scott v. John Sanford, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that African Americans were not and could not be citizens.
Learn about Roger B. Taney, the influential Chief Justice whose tenure spanned the Bank War and the divisive Dred Scott ruling.
BRIEF PROFILE Roger Brooke Taney, a graduate of Dickinson College, might well be the most controversial Supreme Court justice in American history. Taney served as Chief Justice of the United States for nearly thirty years, from 1835 to 1864. But this was a period of bitter sectional controversy over slavery, and Taney’s pro-slavery decisions have since seriously tarnished his reputation ...
