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Taney, Roger Brooke
Born: 1777 AD
Died: 1864 AD, at 87 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
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Died: 1864 AD, at 87 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: None
US jurist and politician
Attorney General 1831-1833
acting Secretary of the Treasury 1833-1834 (nomination rejected 1834
1st Cabinet nominee ever rejected by Senate)
Supreme Court chief justice 1836-1864 (1st Catholic justice)
wrote decisions for Scott v. Sandford 1857 (also Dred Scott v. Sanford
7-2, Congress cannot prohibit slavery in territories and blacks cannot be US citizens
overturned Missouri Compromise of 1820), Kentucky v. Dennison 1861 (9-0, federal government cannot force extradition of criminal suspects between states)
brother-in-law of Francis Scott Key 1806
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