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".
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