OVERVIEW:

FULL NAME:
Roger Brooke Taney

BORN:
March 17, 1777,
Calvert County, Maryland

DIED:
October 12, 1864 (age 87)
Washington, DC

EDUCATION:
Dickinson College (BA, 1795)
Read Law (1799)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Federalist (before 1812)
Democratic (1812–1864)

HIGHLIGHTS: 
1799-1800:
Member, Maryland House of Delegates
1801-1823:
Practiced Law in Frederick, Maryland
1810-1815:
Director, State Bank Branch in Frederick, Maryland
1816-1821:
Maryland State Senator
1818-1823:
Director, Frederick County Bank
1823-1831:
Practiced Law in Baltimore, Maryland
1827-1831:
Attorney General of Maryland
1831:
Acting U.S. Secretary of War 
1831-1833:
U.S.Attorney General
1833-1834:
Acting U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
1836-1864:
Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court 

SOURCES:
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Department of the Treasury
Department of Justice
Congressional Quarterly
University of Virginia 
Dickinson College
Maryland Archives
Oyez
Wikipedia

ARTICLES:
Roger B. Taney, the Leviathan of Slavery (Atlantic, 1865)
Obituary (New York Times, 1864)