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Roger B. Taney autographed manuscript court document (DS) dated December of 1807. Taney has partially filled in the document in his hand and signs on the verso R.B. Taney.

Overall age wear, folds, slight paper loss to the upper right edge and generally fragile along folds.

Roger Brooke Taney (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the fifth chief justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864. Taney infamously delivered the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), ruling that African Americans could not be considered U.S. citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the U.S. territories. Prior to joining the U.S. Supreme Court, Taney served as the U.S. attorney general and U.S. secretary of the treasury under President Andrew Jackson. He was the first Catholic to serve on the Supreme Court.

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