On Dec. 28, 1835 President Jackson appointed Roger B. Taney to succeed this chief justice
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Profile of Roger Brooke Taney and Discussion of Taney Supreme ...  On December 28, 1835, President Jackson nominated Taney Chief Justice of the ... Court is sullied by the appointment of that political hack, Roger B. Taney.
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Roger B. Taney - Wikipedia  Roger Brooke Taney was the fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, holding that office from ... Taney, a Jacksonian Democrat, was made Chief Justice by Jackson. .... recess appointment as Secretary of the Treasury failed in a vote of 2818. ... On December 28, 1835, Jackson sent the nomination of Taney as Chief Justice...
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Roger B. Taney - Government Official, Supreme Court Justice ...  Sep 30, 2015 ... Chief Justice Roger B. Taney made history in his pro-slavery ruling of the Dred ... In turn, President Jackson made Taney Attorney General in 1831. ... vote of 28-18,marking the first time Congress had nixed a presidential ... Supreme Court appointment in 1835, but the Senate rejected the appointment due...
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The Marshall and Taney Courts: Continuities and Changes | The ...  John Marshall and Roger B. Taney (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs) ... In 1798, he was one of three American diplomats sent to France by President John ... Marshall to succeed Oliver Ellsworth as chief justice, after John Jay declined ... On December 28, 1835, Jackson named his longtime ally, Roger Brooke...
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A Great Judicial Character, Roger Brooke Taney - JStor  great office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United. States, omitting ... at Philadelphia July 6, 1835, and on December 28 Jackson sent to the Senate...
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The Supreme Court . Expanding Civil Rights . Biographies of the ...  Reproduction courtesy of the Supreme Court Historical Society. ... He won the case, and Marshall was brought onto the national staff of the NAACP in 1936, ... Marshall prevailed in 29 of the 32 cases he argued before the Supreme Court. ... for his attorney general Ramsey Clark, the son of Associate Justice Tom Clark.
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Dred Scott Case - Black History - HISTORY.com  In his decision, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, a staunch supporter of slavery, ... This convoluted case (1857), both a cause and an effect of sectional conflict, ... the Blows apparently helped Scott sue Emerson's widow for his freedom, but lost...
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Andrew Jackson - U.S. Representative, U.S. President, Judge ...  Mar 14, 2016 ... Andrew Jackson was the seventh U.S. president. ... U.S. Representative, U.S. President, Judge, Lawyer, U.S. Senator (17671845) .... Jackson's birth came just three weeks after the sudden death of his father at ... in 1779, the future president joined a local militia at age 13 and served as a patriot courier.
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James Buchanan - Wikipedia  James Buchanan, Jr was the 15th President of the United States (185761), serving .... Pennsylvania, which had three times failed Buchanan, now gave him full support in ... He served as president from March 4, 1857, to March 4, 1861. ... appointed Robert J. Walker to replace John W. Geary as territorial governor, with the...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. - Wikipedia  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841  March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932, and as Acting Chief Justice of ... During his tenure on the Supreme Court, to which he was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt, he...
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Thurgood Marshall - Wikipedia  1965  Appointed United States Solicitor General by President Lyndon B. Johnson; wins 14 of the 19 cases he argues for the government (19651967). 1967  Becomes first African American named to U.S. Supreme Court (19671991).
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Andrew Jackson - Wikipedia  Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767  June 8, 1845) was an American statesman who served as .... But he may have claimed to be a South Carolinian because the state was ... After being assured Andrew would recover, she volunteered to nurse ..... 1829, Andrew Jackson became the first United States president-elect to take...
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Andrew Jackson - U.S. Representative, U.S. President, Judge ...  Mar 14, 2016 ... Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States. .... a circuit judge on the Tennessee superior court, serving in that position until 1804. ... old hickory wood" on the battlefield, earning him the nickname "Old Hickory." ... Jackson's military exploits made him a rising political star, and in 1822 the...
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John Rutledge - Wikipedia  On June 28, 1795, Chief Justice John Jay resigned, ... President Washington selected Rutledge to succeed Jay as Chief Justice. ... recess appointment (before his formal nomination). ... This was the first time that the Senate had rejected a presidential recess appointment.
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James Buchanan and the Dred Scott Decision - Bill of Rights Institute  His case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. ... The Court did not announce its decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford until March 6, 1857, but Buchanan endorsed the Court's decision in his Inaugural Address on March 4. ... On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney announced in a 7-2 ruling against Dred Scott that...
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November 23, 1963 - 36th President | Chicago Tribune Archive  Judge Sarah T. Hughes, Kennedy appointee to federal court, administering oath of office to Lyndon B. Johnson in cabin of Presidential plane at Dallas airport. ... 22-Lyndon Baines Johnson took over the reins as 36th President of the United ... Presi- dent Kennedy in 1961, the first woman judge in the Dallas fed- eral district.
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Andrew Jackson - U.S. Representative, U.S. President, Judge ...  Mar 14, 2016 ... Andrew Jackson was the seventh U.S. president. ... upon the state, that the knife and the tomahawk were held over the heads ... 2:10) A short biography of the 7th President of the United States, Andrew Jackson. ... Following weeks of skirmishes in December 1814, the two sides clashed on January 8, 1815.
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Chief Justice of the United States - Wikipedia  The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the United States federal court system and ... The first Chief Justice commissioned using the new title was Melville Fuller in 1888. .... first inauguration; there was no Chief Justice of the United States, nor any other federal judge prior to ..... New York: Oxford University Press.
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Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall: Founding Fathers, Cousins ...  Jul 14, 2011 ... And yet, John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, did more to raise the status of the court at that time than any other person...
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Roger Brooke Taney | chief justice of United States | Britannica.com  Fifth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, remembered principally for the Dred Scott decision (1857). ... By this time he had aligned himself with Andrew Jackson, the leader of the Democratic Party, and ... in 1828, reorganized his Cabinet in 1831, he appointed Taney attorney general of the United States.
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Worcester v. Georgia (1832) | New Georgia Encyclopedia  Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians ... president Andrew Jackson the authority to negotiate removal treaties with the Native...