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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 22 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bank of the United States . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dred Scott case , the. 1856 - (search)
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Taney , Roger Brooke 1777 -1864 (search)
Taney, Roger Brooke 1777-1864
Jurist; born in Calvert county, Md., March 17, 1777; graduated at Dickinson College in 1795; admitted to the bar in 1799.
He was of a family of English Roman Catholics who settled in Maryland.
At the age of twenty-three he was a member of the Maryland Assembly; was State Senator in 1816, and attorney-general of Maryland in 1827.
In 1831 President Jackson appointed him United States Attorney-General, and in 1836 he was appointed chief-justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to succeed Judge Marshall.
In 1857 he gave his famous opinion in the Dred Scott case (q. v.), and was an earnest upholder of the slave-system.
He died in Washington, D. C., Oct. 12, 1864.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)