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- Roger_B._Taney abstract "Roger Brooke Taney (/ˈtɔːni/ /TAW-nee/; March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864. He was the eleventh United States Attorney General. He is most remembered for delivering the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), that ruled, among other things, that African-Americans, having been considered inferior at the time the Constitution was drafted, were not part of the original community of citizens and, whether free or slave, could not be considered citizens of the United States.Taney was a Jacksonian Democrat when he became Chief Justice. Described by his and President Andrew Jackson's critics as "[a] supple, cringing tool of Jacksonian power," Taney was a believer in states' rights but also the Union; a slaveholder who manumitted his slaves. From Prince Frederick, Maryland, he had practiced law and politics simultaneously and succeeded in both. After abandoning Federalism as a losing cause, he rose to the top of the state's Jacksonian machine. As U.S. Attorney General (1831–1833) and then Secretary of the Treasury (1833–1834), Taney became one of Andrew Jackson's closest advisers. ". . . He brought to the Chief Justiceship a high intelligence and legal acumen, kindness and humility, patriotism, and a determination to be a great Chief Justice that enabled him to mold the modest raw material of the Court into an effective and prestigious institution."In Dred Scott v. Sandford, an African-American slave named Dred Scott had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom based on his having been brought by his masters to live in free territories. The Taney Court ruled that persons of African descent could not be, nor were ever intended to be, citizens under the U.S. Constitution, and thus the plaintiff (Scott) was without legal standing to file a suit. The framers of the Constitution, Taney famously wrote, believed that blacks "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and sold and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever profit could be made by it." The court also declared the Missouri Compromise (1820) unconstitutional, thus permitting slavery in all of the country's territories. Taney died during the final months of the American Civil War on the same day that his home state of Maryland abolished slavery.".
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- Roger_B._Taney activeYearsEndDate "1864-10-12".
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- Roger_B._Taney almaMater Dickinson_College.
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- Roger_B._Taney birthPlace Calvert_County,_Maryland.
- Roger_B._Taney birthPlace Maryland.
- Roger_B._Taney birthYear "1777".
- Roger_B._Taney deathDate "1864-10-12".
- Roger_B._Taney deathPlace Washington,_D.C..
- Roger_B._Taney deathYear "1864".
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- Roger_B._Taney office "12th United States Secretary of the Treasury".
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- Roger_B._Taney office "United States Secretary of War".
- Roger_B._Taney otherParty Federalist_Party.
- Roger_B._Taney party Democratic_Party_(United_States).
- Roger_B._Taney president Andrew_Jackson.
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- Roger_B._Taney profession Lawyer.
- Roger_B._Taney religion Catholic_Church.
- Roger_B._Taney successor Benjamin_Franklin_Butler_(lawyer).
- Roger_B._Taney successor Levi_Woodbury.
- Roger_B._Taney successor Lewis_Cass.
- Roger_B._Taney successor Salmon_P._Chase.
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- Roger_B._Taney after Benjamin_Franklin_Butler_(lawyer).
- Roger_B._Taney after Levi_Woodbury.
- Roger_B._Taney almaMater Dickinson_College.
- Roger_B._Taney before John_M._Berrien.
- Roger_B._Taney before William_J._Duane.
- Roger_B._Taney birthDate "1777-03-17".
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- Roger_B._Taney dateOfDeath "1864-10-12".
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- Roger_B._Taney deathPlace "Washington, D.C., United States".
- Roger_B._Taney department "Attorney General".
- Roger_B._Taney department "Secretary of the Treasury".
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- Roger_B._Taney name "Roger Taney".
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- Roger_B._Taney nominator Andrew_Jackson.
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- Roger_B._Taney otherparty "Federalist Party".
- Roger_B._Taney party "Democratic Party".
- Roger_B._Taney placeOfBirth Calvert_County,_Maryland.
- Roger_B._Taney placeOfDeath Washington,_D.C..
- Roger_B._Taney predecessor John_Eaton_(politician).
- Roger_B._Taney predecessor John_M._Berrien.
- Roger_B._Taney predecessor John_Marshall.
- Roger_B._Taney predecessor William_J._Duane.
- Roger_B._Taney president Andrew_Jackson.
- Roger_B._Taney profession Judge.
- Roger_B._Taney profession Lawyer.
- Roger_B._Taney religion Catholic_Church.
- Roger_B._Taney shortDescription United_States_federal_judge.
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- Roger_B._Taney spouse "Anne Key".
- Roger_B._Taney successor Benjamin_Franklin_Butler_(lawyer).
- Roger_B._Taney successor Levi_Woodbury.
- Roger_B._Taney successor Lewis_Cass.
- Roger_B._Taney successor Salmon_P._Chase.
- Roger_B._Taney termEnd "1831-08-01".
- Roger_B._Taney termEnd "1833-11-14".
- Roger_B._Taney termEnd "1834-06-25".
- Roger_B._Taney termEnd "1864-10-12".
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- Roger_B._Taney termStart "1831-07-20".
- Roger_B._Taney termStart "1833-09-23".
- Roger_B._Taney termStart "1836-03-15".
- Roger_B._Taney title Attorney_General_of_Maryland.