CHIEF JUSTICE ROGER B. TANEY - AUTOGRAPH DOCUMENT SIGNED THREE TIMES 03/1810 - HFSID 327863
Sale Price $625.00
Reg. $750.00
ROGER B. TANEY
Handwritten document concerning the dispute of stolen wheat between
two brothers. Signed three times!
Autograph document signed three times (twice in text): "R. B.
Taney, Pltff/Atty", "Roger Brooke Taney", "Roger Brooke Taney", 2 pages
(front and verso), 7¾x13. Encased in 9½x14¼ mylar. 1810. Legal document written
by Taney concerning a case between Andrew and Jacob Michael over stolen wheat,
written in part: "And whereupon the said Andrew by Roger Brooke Taney his
attorney complains that whereas the said Andrew on the thirtieth day of July...was
possessed of certain goods...of the value of two hundred dollars current money as
of his own proper goods". Roger B. Taney (1777-1864) was
educated privately before attending Dickinson College, where he graduated first
in his class. Taney apprenticed with an Annapolis lawyer for three years and
was admitted to the bar in 1799 when he was 22. After two years as a
Federalist member of the Maryland House of Delegates, he began his
legal career in earnest in Frederick, Maryland. There, he met Anne Phoebe
Charlton Key, the sister of Francis Scott Key, whom he married in January of
1806. Taney, who became one of Maryland's leading lawyers, became an avid
supporter of Andrew Jackson after the Federalist Party faded away. In 1831,
Jackson appointed Taney as both Attorney General (1831-1833) and
acting Secretary of War before naming him Secretary of the
Treasury on Sept. 23, 1833. Taney served until June 24, 1834, when his
appointment was rejected by the United States Senate. In 1836, after a political
change in the makeup of the Senate, Jackson appointed Taney as Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court. Taney served until his death in 1864. He is chiefly
remembered for his decision in the Dred Scott case (1857),which
stated that slaves were not citizens and that Congress had no power to
prohibit slavery in territories. Toned. Lightly soiled. Top margin chipped
and torn. Edges lightly worn and frayed. Light surface creases. Multiple folds.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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