Nice CDV showing Taney posed with one arm resting against a column and pedestal. He wears a dark suit and overcoat and holds a cane in one hand and a top hat in another.

Image is clear and clean with great contrast.

Bottom front of mount has embossed photographer’s imprint that reads “BENDENN BROS. BALTO.”

Reverse has “CH. JUSTICE TANEY” in pencil at top.

Roger Brooke Taney was born March 17, 1777. He graduated from Dickinson College in 1795. He practiced law in Maryland and served in the state legislature as a Democrat. In 1827 he was appointed Attorney General of Maryland and under President Andrew Jackson he was appointed Attorney General of the United States. He was the fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, holding that office from 1836 until his death on October 12, 1864. He is most remembered for delivering the infamous majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), that ruled, among other things, that African-Americans, having been considered inferior at the time the Constitution was drafted, were not part of the original community of citizens and, whether free or slave, could not be considered citizens of the United States, which created an uproar among abolitionists and the free states of the northern United States.

Taney’s high court decision helped bring about the Civil War by further dividing the country and early in the Civil War he was a thorn in the side of President Lincoln opposing many of his policies.

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