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Roger Taney

A marble bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney, who came from a wealthy, slave-owning family in Calvert County, Maryland. Taney led the Supreme Court in the 1857 ruling against Dred Scott, an enslaved African American man who had sued for his freedom. House (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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