American lawyer, politician, racist, and the second-worst Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1777-1864). Taney was born in Calvert County, Maryland to a wealthy family of slavers running a tobacco plantation. His older brother was going to inherit the family plantation, and his father encouraged him to study law. He was sent to Dickinson College at the age of 15; after graduating in 1796, he studied law under Judge Jeremiah Townley Chase in Annapolis and was admitted to the Maryland bar in 1799. 

Taney established a legal practice in Frederick, Maryland, and ran for the Maryland House of Delegates as a Federalist. He won the seat, but lost when he ran for re-election. He stuck with the Federalist Party but broke with them because he supported the War of 1812. He was elected to a five-year term in the Maryland State Senate in 1816 and moved to Baltimore in 1823. In 1826, he and Daniel Webster

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—my grandpa

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