Taney,Roger Brooke

Taney,Roger Brooke
Ta·ney (tôʹnē), Roger Brooke. 1777-1864.
American jurist who served as the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1836-1864). In the Dred Scott decision (1857) he ruled that slaves and their descendants had no rights as citizens.

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