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Roger Brooke Taney

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Noun1.Roger Brooke Taney - United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme CourtRoger Brooke Taney - United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; remembered for his ruling that slaves and their descendants have no rights as citizens (1777-1864)


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of Connecticut School of Law) synthesizes the scholarship on the Supreme Court during the tenures of Chief Justices John Marshall (1801-1835) and Roger Brooke Taney (1836-1864).
Sandford: There comes vividly to mind a portrait by Emanuel Leutze that hangs in the Harvard Law School: Roger Brooke Taney, painted in 1859, the 82nd year of his life, the 24th of his Chief Justiceship, the second after his opinion in Dred Scott.
Bentz Street, [telephone] (301) 663-8687, now houses the Roger Brooke Taney House & Francis Scott Key Museum.
 
 
 
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