Roger Brooke Taney, born on March 17 of 1777 in Calvert County, Maryland, to Monica and Michael Taney, a slaveholding family. Homeschooled, Taney was able to enter college at age 15, after his last tutor recommended it, and went to Dickinson college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in which he graduated with honors in 1795. Being the second out of seven children, Taney knew he was not going to inherit the family plantation and decided to study law instead and consequently admitted to the bar in 1799.
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