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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)
Jackson makes a tour of the Eastern States as far as Concord, N. H., returning to Washington......July 3, 1833 President removes W. J. Duane, Secretary of Treasury, for refusing to withdraw the deposits from the National Bank, and appoints Roger B. Taney, of Maryland, in his place......Sept. 23, 1833 President Jackson directs the Secretary of the Treasury to withdraw the deposits, about $10,000,000, from the National Bank......Sept. 26, 1833 Indian chief Black Hawk is taken through the pt. 24–Oct. 28, 1864 English-built cruiser Florida captured in the Brazilian harbor of Bahia by the United States war-ship Wachusett, and taken to Hampton Roads, where she is sunk by a collision a few days after......Oct. 7, 1864 Chief-Justice Roger B. Taney dies in Washington......Oct. 12, 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek, Va.......Oct. 19, 1864 Raid on St. Albans, Vt., by Confederates from Canada......Oct. 19, 1864 Confederates under Price enter Linn county, Kan......Oct. 23, 1864
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maryland, (search)
uly 10, 1831 National anti-masonic convention assembles at Baltimore and nominates William Wirt for President of the United States......Sept. 26, 1831 Roger Brooke Taney, of Maryland, appointed Attorney-General of the United States......Dec. 27, 1831 Taney appointed Secretary of the Treasury......Sept. 24, 1833 HospitaTaney appointed Secretary of the Treasury......Sept. 24, 1833 Hospital for the insane at Spring Grove, Baltimore county, opened......1834 Taney appointed chief-justice Supreme Court of the United States......March 15, 1836 Legislature passes the famous internal improvement bill, subscribing $3,000,000 in State bonds to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, $3,000,000 to the Baltimore and OhioTaney appointed chief-justice Supreme Court of the United States......March 15, 1836 Legislature passes the famous internal improvement bill, subscribing $3,000,000 in State bonds to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, $3,000,000 to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, $500,000 to the Maryland Crosscut Canal, $500,000 to the Annapolis and Potomac Canal, and $1,000,000 to the Eastern Shore Railroad — in all $8,000,000......June 3, 1836 State convention irrespective of party meets in Baltimore and adopts resolutions for revising the constitution......June 6, 1836 Constitution revis
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.), Chapter 15: publicists and orators, 1800-1850 (search)
ge over most of his adversaries. From even a hurried sketch of this period we cannot omit to mention the names of a few other men who were well known in this time and deserve to be known now. Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), one of the ablest and most learned of American statesmen, served his country in Congress, as foreign minister, and as secretary of the treasury; he was an administrator rather than a publicist or orator, but some of his pamphlets and reports were of marked ability. Roger Brooke Taney (1777-1864), secretary of the treasury under Jackson, and chief justice of the United States from 1836 to 1864, was a learned jurist, whose fame was clouded for the later part of his life by his opinion in the Dred Scott case. Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), an orator of no mean power, represented during the earlier part of his life the narrow New England Federalism which was so bitterly opposed to the politics of Jefferson and Madison. Edward Everett (1794-1865) occupied various public p
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.), Index (search)
, 102, 203 Swinburne, 51, 245, 271, 271 n. Sword of Robert Lee, the, 291, 309 Symonds, J. A., 27, 263 n. Symphony, the, 337, 343, 345 System of doctrines contained in divine revelation explained and defended, 199 Tabb, John B., 291, 326-329, 330, 342, 343, 345 Tales for the Marines, 154 Tales of a Wayside inn, 39, 49 Tales of soldiers and Civilians, 387 Talisman, the, 174, 369 Talvi (Mrs. Robinson), 136 Tamerlane and other poems, 57 Tamerlane, 66, 68 Taney, Roger Brooke, 89 Tanglewood tales, 401 Tannenbaum, 0 Tannenbaum, 295 Tar-Baby Story and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus, The, 350 Tardy George, 280 Taylor, Bayard, 49, 167, 190, 192, 276, 278, 280, 311, 337, 338, 344, 402 Taylor, John, 84-85 Temperance, 45 Tennent, Gilbert, 198 Tennessee's partner, 380, 385 Tennyson, 3, 5, 39, 52, 224, 248, 254, 271 Tenting on the old camp ground, 285 Tent on the Beach, the, 46, 49 Ten years on a Georgia plantation, 3, 4 Term of s
Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: Maryland's overthrow. (search)
st trial of strength between law and arms, law became silent, as usual. On May 25th John Merryman, one of the first citizens of Baltimore county, was arrested at his home by a squad of soldiers and locked up in Fort McHenry. The next day Roger Brooke Taney, chief justice of the Supreme court of the United States, assigned to the fourth circuit, of which Maryland formed a part, issued the writ of habeas corpus to General Cadwallader, commanding at Fort McHenry, requiring him to produce the bodld decide questions of right. It would be better to bring trespass quare clausum against Butler at the Relay for digging trenches and piling up earthworks, to sue out injunctions against illegal arrests and a mandamus to make Cadwallader respect Taney's writ of habeas corpus! The committee on Federal relations agreed on their report May 7th that it was inexpedient to take any steps toward the organization and arming of the militia, though it was not made until the 10th. But on the 8th John
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