Roger Taney enters the Maryland legislature

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After Taney's aristocratic planter father used his influence to help his son win the election, Taney had a productive session in which he served on several comittees and held an important chairmanship. -- Taney
Source Citation
Carl Brent Swisher, Roger B. Taney (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935), 31-33.
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