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.
Taney later married Anne key whose brother, Francis Scott Key, would later write ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’. Taney and his wife would later have seven children whom there isn’t much about.
After starting his career as an attorney, who at the time was part of the Federalist party, Taney also pursued politics and was elected and served one term in the Maryland House of Delegates and later ran for reelection in 1800 but lost. Later on he would serve as director of State Bank Branch in Frederick, Maryland from 1810 to 1815 and settled back to being a lawyer and later Attorney…show more content… During the 1800’s the Democrat party was known to be more conservative just like Taney’s views but in 1841 the Amistad Case arrived to the Supreme court. African captives which were kidnapped from their homes in West Africa and illegally sold as slaves were being shipped to cuba when they set free form their restrained and took over the ship where they killed the captain and the cook then demanded to be taken back to Africa but the remaining crew took them to the coasts of Florida instead. The court ruled that the Africans were entitled to take any means possible regardless of law to secure their freedom, decision for which Taney voted in agreement with the
