Taney,
Roger B(rooke) 1777-1864; U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. (1836-64)
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(tôˈnē), Roger Brooke 1777-1864.
American jurist who served as the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1836-1864). In the Dred Scott decision (1857) he ruled that slaves and their descendants had no rights as citizens.