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Wake County, NC
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Roger Taney (Great Southerners)
Will T. Hale, Great Southerners: Being A Series of Short Sketches of Statesmen, Military Captains, Orators, Jurists, Preachers, Men of Literature, Etc (Nashville, TN: Barbee & Smith, Agents, 1900), 1: 130-134.
Two of the most noted chief justices of the United States have been from the South: John Marshall and Roger B. Taney (pronounced Tawney). Both had experience in statesmanship also.
Torrington, CT
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Roger Taney (White, 1988)
Scholarship
G. Edward White, The American Judicial Tradition: Profiles of Leading American Judges (New York: University of Oxford Press, 1988), 64-64.
Roger Taney and the Limits of Judicial Power
Roger Taney and the Limits of Judicial Power
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Roger Taney (American National Biography)
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Sandra F. VanBurkleo and Bonnie Speck, “Taney, Roger Brooke,” American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/11/11-00834.html.
Taney passed his final weeks at home. In 1863 he confided in a friend that, while he knew he was "sick enough for a hospital, . . . that hospital must be my own home." He no longer recognized the American republic and despaired of the rule of law. In August 1863 he told an old friend that he saw no "ground for hope" that the Supreme Court would "ever again be restored to the authority and rank which the Constitution intended to confer upon it.
Benjamin Jefferson Hill, detail
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Benjamin J. Hill Provost-Marshal-General Army of Tennessee
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Francis Trevelyan Miller and Robert S. Lanier, The Photographic History of the Civil War in Ten Volumes, Vol. X (New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1910), 296.
Benjamin Jefferson Hill
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Benjamin J. Hill Provost-Marshal-General Army of Tennessee
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Francis Trevelyan Miller and Robert S. Lanier, The Photographic History of the Civil War in Ten Volumes, Vol. X (New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1910), 296.
Henry DeLamar Clayton, detail
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Henry De Lamar Clayton, Originally Colonel of Infantry
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Francis Trevelyan Miller and Robert S. Lanier, The Photographic History of the Civil War, Volume 10 (New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1910), 252.
Henry DeLamar Clayton
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Henry De Lamar Clayton, Originally Colonel of Infantry
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Francis Trevelyan Miller and Robert S. Lanier, The Photographic History of the Civil War, Volume 10 (New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1910), 252.