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    Roger Brooke Taney (/ˈtɔːni/; March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the fifth chief justice of the United...
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    WPG/WAGC/WHEC-37, launched as USCGC Roger B. Taney and for most of her career called USCGC Taney (/ˈtɔːni/), is a United States Coast Guard high endurance...
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  • Roger B. Taney was a justice of the United States Supreme Court. Roger B. Taney may also refer to: Roger B. Taney Monument (Annapolis) Roger B. Taney...
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    Dred Scott v. Sandford. However, unlike Roger B. Taney, who pronounced his name /ˈtɔːni/, the "Taney" in Taney County is generally pronounced /ˈteɪni/...
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  • The Roger B. Taney Monument is a statue of Roger B. Taney (1777–1864), who was the fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, installed in Annapolis, Maryland...
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  • SS Roger B. Taney was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Roger B. Taney, who was the fifth Chief Justice...
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    appointment to name Roger B. Taney, who was serving as Attorney General, as the Secretary of the Treasury. Jackson wanted Taney to help him dismantle...
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    June 1861, President Lincoln secretly ordered an arrest warrant for Roger B. Taney, the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, but abandoned...
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    Roger B. Taney is a 19th-century bronze statue of Chief Justice of the United States Roger B. Taney (1777–1864), by William Henry Rinehart. It was located...
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  • Taney County, Missouri, United States USCGC Taney, a United States Coast Guard cutter SS Roger B. Taney, a United States Liberty Ship Roger B. Taney (1777–1864)...
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    presidential oath of office was administered to Harrison by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. Harrison died 31 days into his term, the first U.S. president to die...
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  • Federal Judge Sarah T. Hughes administered the oath of office to Lyndon B. Johnson aboard Air Force One after John F. Kennedy's assassination on November...
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    [slave] property without due process of law". Although Chief Justice Roger B. Taney had hoped to settle issues related to slavery and congressional authority...
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    In 1877, due to the controversy over the Compromise of 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes was sworn in secretly on March 3 before Ulysses S. Grant's term ended...
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    president and John C. Breckinridge as vice president. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney administered the presidential oath of office. This was the first inauguration...
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    Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled in this case that the authority to suspend habeas corpus lay exclusively with Congress. Taney's ruling was not a...
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  • United States Supreme Court decided during the Taney Court, the tenure of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney from March 28, 1836 through October 12, 1864....
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    Praise Thee". In 1806, Key's sister, Anne Phoebe Charlton Key, married Roger BTaney, who would later become Chief Justice of the United States. In 1846 one...
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    Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, a Democratic-leaning Marylander. The reading of Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution was in question. Taney believed that...
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    George M. Dallas as vice president. Polk was sworn in by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. This was the first inaugural ceremony to be reported by telegraph and...
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    him with William J. Duane, who also refused. Jackson then appointed Roger B. Taney as acting secretary, who implemented Jackson's policy. With the loss...
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    The Taney Court (the Supreme Court of the United States under Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, 1836–1864) heard thirty criminal law cases, approximately one...
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    Pierce as president and William R. King as vice president. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney administered the presidential oath of office. Pierce affirmed the oath...
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    health problems that led to the rejection of his recess appointment. Roger B. Taney survived his wife, Anne, by twenty years. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr....
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    presidential oath of office was administered to Lincoln by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. John C. Breckinridge became the first outgoing vice president to administer...
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    Cambridge Univ. Press. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-521-78971-4. Schumacher, Alvin. "Roger B. Taney". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original on August 24,...
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    writer; father of writers Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë (d. 1861) Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1864) March 19 – José María...
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    however, was a two-edged sword. In Dred Scott v. Sandford, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney held that "the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly...
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    Robert Henry Goldsborough, John Eager Howard, John C. Herbert and Roger B. Taney. On election day, 10 December 1821, incumbent Democratic-Republican...
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  • biographies of Supreme Court justices, including Stephen J. Field and Roger B. Taney. He was the Thomas P. Stran Professor of Political Science at Johns...
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