Roger B. Taney

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Roger Brooke Taney was the Fifth Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court (1836-1864) succeeding John Marshall and preceding Salmon P. Chase. A southerner, he was nominated for the Supreme Court by president Andrew Jackson.

Chief Justice Taney is most famous for the decision he wrote in Dred Scott v. Sanford, widely recognized to be one of the worst judicial decisions in history. It declared African Americans lacked rights of legal process and citizenship, and it rendered multiple slavery compromises void. This decision inflamed the dispute over slavery and was a significant cause the American Civil War.

Prior to being elevated to the Court, Chief Justice Taney was Jackson's Secretary of the Treasury and Attorney General.