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Search; Collections Online Roger B. Taney View: image; Image 1 of 1 To order an image, navigate to the full display and click "request this image" on the blue toolbar. Lithograph. Image: 11.4 cm x 8.3 cm; whole page (visible in large image): 21.5 cm x 15.1 cm. From Portraits of American Abolitionists (a collection of images of individuals ...
Roger Brooke Taney (/ ˈ t ɔː n i /; March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the fifth chief justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864.
Roger B. Taney, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right. Created / Published [between 1850 and 1864(?)] Subject Headings - Taney, Roger Brooke,--1777-1864
At the time that he sent this letter, Roger Brooke Taney was serving as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court had recently entered the national debate about slavery with its 1857 decision in the case Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857).
The first comprehensive edition of the personal and professional papers of Roger Brooke Taney, Attorney General and Treasury Secretary under Andrew Jackson and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Baltimore received a disproportionate share of the dispossessed, and the teenage Roger Taney, born and raised in nearby Calvert County, witnessed the disturbing scene of more than a thousand emaciated and bedraggled refugees overwhelming private relief in the city.
17 lis 2024 · 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 Scott decision (1857). He was the first Roman Catholic to serve on the Supreme Court. Early life and career
