Roger Brooke Taney

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Roger B. Taney, in a painting by Anderson. Taney was the fifth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, remembered principally for the Dred Scott decision (1857). He was also the first Roman Catholic to serve on the Supreme Court.

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