Definitions for Roger Brooke Taney
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1. Taney, Roger Taney, Roger Brooke Taneynoun

   United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; remembered for his ruling that slaves and their descendants have no rights as citizens (1777-1864)

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1. roger brooke taney

   Roger Brooke Taney was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who notably served as the fifth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1836 until his death in 1864. He was the first Roman Catholic to hold this position and the eleventh United States Attorney General. Taney is most remembered for delivering the majority opinion in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford case in 1857, which declared that African Americans were not citizens and therefore could not petition the U.S. court system, further exacerbating tensions leading to the American Civil War. His tenure as Chief Justice was marked by numerous controversial decisions that have been criticized by many subsequent legal scholars and historians.

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1. Roger Brooke Taney

   Roger Brooke Taney 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, 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 regretted the institution and 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 and then Secretary of the Treasury, Taney became one of Andrew Jackson's closest advisers.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Roger Brooke Taney in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

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   The numerical value of Roger Brooke Taney in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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