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Andrew Jackson
Who was this Supreme Court Chief Justice?
ANSWER: Chief Justice Roger B. Taney was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Andrew Jackson. He declared in the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857 that blacks were not and could never be citizens of the United States. They could, however, be “bought and sold and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever profit could be made by it.”