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After switching to the Democratic-Republican Party, Taney was elected to the Maryland Senate in 1816. He emerged as one of the most prominent attorneys in the state and was appointed as the Attorney General of Marylan...
Roger B. Taney (born March 17, 1777, Calvert county, Maryland, U.S.—died October 12, 1864, Washington, D.C.) was the fifth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, remembered principally for the Dred S...
Due to Jackson’s aversion towards the National Bank, he fired his Secretary of the Treasury and appointed Taney, who helped Jackson disassemble the Bank. Despite serving in the position for nine months, Taney became t...
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 183...
Roger B. Taney’s life and career encapsulate the complexities of 19th-century America. From his privileged upbringing in Maryland to his rise as a prominent legal and political figure, Taney’s story reflects the natio...
One of the most controversial figures in the decades leading up to the Civil War, Roger Brooke Taney was born on March 17, 1777, into a prominent slave-owning family in Calvert County, Maryland.
Read about how U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney got to the Court, including his education, career, and confirmation process.
Roger B. Taney, the fifth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, is most known for the Dred Scott decision. In that ruling, Taney wrote that slaves were not citizens under the U.S. Constitution and the egalitarian l...
Roger Brooke Taney (1777–1864) was the fifth chief justice of the United States. Although he was one of our most intelligent and able jurists, he will always be remembered as the person who handed down one of the Cour...
Taney served as Chief Justice for twenty-eight years, the second longest tenure of any Chief Justice, and died on October 12, 1864, at the age of eighty-seven.
