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Taney, Roger Brooke

lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born March 17, 1777, in Calvert county, Md. In 1801 he was elected to the Maryland state assembly and settled in Frederick; and subsequently served four years in the state senate. He removed to Baltimore in 1822; in 1827 was chosen attorney-general of Maryland; and in 1831 was appointed attorney-general of the United States in President Jackson's cabinet. He was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States, but was again rejected by the senate; and in 1836 was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of the United States. He died Oct. 12, 1864, in Washington, D. C.