Garfield Chester A. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Help inform the discussion Support the Miller Center. Afterwards, he moved to Frederick, Maryland, where he practiced law for nearly two decades. He was then elected to the House of Delegates again, serving from to Soon after, Taney and his family left Frederick for Baltimore, where he was soon recognized as a talented lawyer.
Soon known as one of the leading lawyers in the state, Taney was made Attorney General of Maryland in By now, Taney was a staunch Democrat in the likeness of Andrew Jackson , who was riding his popularity to the presidency. Jackson vehemently attacked the Second National Bank as undemocratic and unconstitutional.
He saw it as a tool of Northeastern financial interests that abused its powers, and that its funds should be withdrawn and deposited into state banks. Its charter was set to expire in , but there was movement in Congress to renew it.
Jackson and Taney would make sure that did not come to fruition. Jackson nominated Taney for Secretary of the Treasury in , a post in which Taney served faithfully for nine months in crippling the bank. However, so many congressmen opposed his financial policies that Congress refused to confirm him — the first time Congress had refused to confirm a presidential cabinet nominee.
The slavery issue had already created a turbulent, volatile atmosphere throughout the nation. Dred Scott, like kerosene tossed onto a simmering fire, played a significant role in igniting the Civil War. The North became ready to combat what it viewed as the South's disproportionate influence in government.
The court case lives in infamy today, but few people know much about the actual people involved. I suspect Scott and Taney never imagined they would play such powerful roles in our great American story. Taney was from Maryland, a slave state, but had long before emancipated his slaves and reportedly paid pensions to his older slaves, as well. Scott was born into slavery in Virginia around birth dates for slaves were often unrecorded , and made his way westward with his master, Peter Blow.
By , Scott was living in St. Louis, still a slave to Blow. He was sold to Army doctor John Emerson in and accompanied him to his various postings — including stations in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory what is now Minnesota.
In , Scott married Harriett Robinson. Reports vary on whether she was a slave of Emerson's prior to the marriage or Emerson purchased her from another military officer after she and Scott had fallen in love. The series of events underscored the painful and difficult lives slaves led. Love, like everything else, was subject to the vagaries of their owners' dispositions.
During the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, Roger B. Taney taw -nee served as the fifth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Although Taney had freed his own slaves in , he felt slavery necessary as long as African Americans lived in the United States. His decision in Dred Scott v Sandford is the one for which he is most remembered. Essentially, the decision argued that Scott was a slave, not a citizen of the United States, and therefore had no right to sue in a federal court.
Taney further argued that Congress had no power to exclude slavery from the territories and that African Americans could not become citizens.
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