Roger Brooke Taney

1777-1864

Maryland

Maryland Legislature; Attorney General of the United States, 1831-33; recess appointment as Secretary of the Treasury; appointed as Secretary of the Treasury, 1833; but rejected by the Senate; appointed Associate Justice, 1835, but rejected by the Senate; sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States, March 28, 1836; died in office, October 12,1864.