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Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, 1836-1864. Taney served as Chief Justice in the years leading up to the Civil War. Gave the ruling in the monumental Dred Scott decision in 1857. Daguerreotype by Matthew Brady, circa 1855-1864. Public domain.