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Name: Roger Brooke Taney
Birth Date: March 17, 1777
Death Date: October 12, 1864
Place of Birth: Calvert County, Maryland, United States
Place of Death: Washington, DC, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: politician, chief justice

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Biography of Roger Brooke Taney
781 words, approx. 3 pages
Roger Brooke Taney (1777-1864) was an American political leader and as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court greatly contributed to constitutional law. Roger B. Taney was born in Calvert County, Md., on March 17, 1777, into a landed, slaveholding...
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Biography of Roger Brooke Taney
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Roger Brooke Taney was an American political leader and as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court greatly contributed to constitutional law. Roger B. Taney was born in Calvert County, Md., on March 17, 1777, into a landed, slaveholding family that...


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Civil War: Life in the South Summary
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On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney of the Supreme Court delivered an opinion that, in the view of many, would decide the survival or the destruction of the United States. The bitter controversy over slavery that was dividing free states...
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Roger Brooke Taney (pronounced Tawney) (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the twelfth United States Attorney General. He also was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864, and was the...


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Roger B. Taney - In Historical Perspective
03/26/1993: 528 words, approx. 2 pages
I read with interest about the name change of the Roger B. Taney Middle School to honor Thurgood Marshall {Metro, March 5}. Indeed Justice Marshall is more than worthy of such honor. However, saying that Roger Taney upheld slavery and was a racist requires...
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The Washington Post
The Legacy of Roger Taney
04/07/1993: 347 words, approx. 1 pages
Helen Gallagher Taney's defense {letters, March 26} of Chief Justice Roger Taney was historically inaccurate. She said Judge Taney was merely upholding the Founding Fathers and that his opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford restated the constitutional principle that a free black person could...
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Harvard re-examines Dred Scott decision
4/7/2007: 513 words, approx. 2 pages
A century and a half after the Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that no black _ slave or free _ could ever become a U.S. citizen, the case's legacy is still being debated.The fallout from the 1857 decision, which helped spark the...
 


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