SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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Roger B. Taney
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John Marshall
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Neil Gorsuch
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Antonin Scalia
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Detailed explanation-1: -Taney, in full Roger Brooke Taney, (born March 17, 1777, Calvert county, Maryland, U.S.-died October 12, 1864, Washington, D.C.), fifth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, remembered principally for the Dred Scott decision (1857). He was the first Roman Catholic to serve on the Supreme Court.
Detailed explanation-2: -On March 6, 1857, in the case of Dred Scott v. John Sanford, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that African Americans were not and could not be citizens.
Detailed explanation-3: -Jackson nominated Taney to replace Gabriel Duvall on the Supreme Court in 1835 but, afraid of his seemingly radical views, the senate rejected him again. Jackson successfully nominated him again 10 months later to succeed Chief Justice John Marshall.