He was born in Maryland in 1777 and married Francis Scott Key's sister in 1
He was born in Maryland in 1777 and married Francis Scott Key's sister in 1806. He was appointed Andrew Jackson's second attorney general in 1831, but when Jackson attempted to make him secretary of the treasury in 1833, he became the first presidential cabinet nominee to be rejected by the Senate. Three years later, despite the opposition of Henry Clay, John Calhoun, and Daniel Webster, he was accepted by Congress as John Marshall's successor on the Supreme Court. FTP, name this controversial chief justice most remembered for writing the majority opinion in the 1857 Dred Scott decision.
He was born in Maryland in 1777 and married Francis Scott Key's sister in 1806.
Roger Taney