로저 토니

소개

로저 브룩 토니(Roger Brooke Taney, 1777년 5월 17일 ~ 1864년 10월 12일)는 미국의 중요한 변호사이자 판사였다. 그는 1836년부터 1864년 자신의 사망까지 연방 대법원장을 지냈다.

Roger Brooke Taney was an American lawyer and politician who served as the fifth chief justice of the United States from 1836 until his death in 1864. Taney delivered the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), ruling that African Americans could not be considered U.S. citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the U.S. territories. Prior to joining the U.S. Supreme Court, Taney served as the U.S. attorney general and U.S. secretary of the treasury under President Andrew Jackson. He was the first Catholic to serve on the Supreme Court.