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Ta⋅ney

  [taw-nee]
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–noun
Roger Brooke, 1777–1864, U.S. jurist: Chief Justice of the U.S. 1836–64.
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Ta·ney   (tô'nē)   
American jurist who served as the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1836-1864). In the Dred Scott decision (1857) he ruled that slaves and their descendants had no rights as citizens.
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