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Noun

1. roger brooke taney, roger taney, taney

United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; remembered for his ruling that slaves and their descendants have no rights as citizens (1777-1864)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

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Roger B(rooke)1777-1864; U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. (1836-64)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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American jurist who served as the chief justice of the US Supreme Court (1836-1864). In the Dred Scott decision (1857) he ruled that slaves and their descendants had no rights as citizens.

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