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(1777-1864), Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was graduated a t Dickinson College, became a member of the Maryland Legislature, and settled in Baltimore. Lawyer and politician, a t first Federalist and later Jacksonian Democrat, he was Attorney-General 1831-1833, and was appointed by President Jackson as Secretary of the Treasury in 1833, to take the place of a less subservient official. Taney was not confirmed by the Senate, but in his few months of service he ordered the removal of the Government deposits from the bank. The President nominated him as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1835, and he was confirmed in the following year. In his long service, until his death, various important questions were decided, chief of which in interest was the Dred Scott case in 1857. Life by Tyler.