A statue of Roger B. Taney, close to the United Methodist Church in Mount Vernon - Baltimore, MD. (The steeple posted earlier is from the church in the background).
Roger Brooke Taney (
pron.: /?t??ni/ TAW-nee; March 17, 1777 ? October 12, 1864) was the fifth
Chief Justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864. He was the first
Roman Catholic to hold that office or sit on the
Supreme Court of the United States. He was also the eleventh
United States Attorney General.
Taney married Anne Phebe Charlton Key, sister of
Francis Scott Key, on January 7, 1806.
[7] They had seven children together.
Taney personally administered the oath of office to Lincoln, his most prominent critic, on March 4, 1861.
[14]Taney died during the final months of the
American Civil War on the same day that his home state of
Maryland abolished slavery.
Taney's home,
Taney Place, located at Adelina,
Calvert County, Maryland was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
Another Taney home is located in
Frederick, Maryland where Taney lived and practiced law with partner
Francis Scott Key, the author of "The Star Spangled Banner".
Cha cha, Nikon D600, SPM, Photoshop CS6, IrfanView.
Cheers,
Brian
My Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ur4chun8/
My photos according to "Interestingness"...
http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/Tags/Brian,Wallace,3d
My FAA Web page:
http://brian-wallace.artistwebsites.com/
Capture Outdoors Maryland: http://www.capturemaryland.com/users/Starg82343