Roger B. Taney

Roger Brooke Taney (pronounced TAW-nee) (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States from 1836 until his death in 1864. He was the first Roman Catholic to hold this office. Taney died on the same day that his home state of Maryland abolished slavery.

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Taney was born to a wealthy Roman Catholic slave-owning family that raised tobacco in Calvert County, Maryland. Since he could not, as the second son, expect to inherit the family plantation, he pursued a career in the law. He was educated at Dickinson College, where he graduated first in his class, then studied for the law in apprenticeship to a judge in Annapolis, Maryland. This was the era before most attorneys attended a professional law school. He married Anne Phebe Charlton Key, sister of Francis Scott Key, in 1806.

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