Who was the chief justice of the United States during the Scott v. Sandford case?

Roger B. Taney was chief justice when the Supreme Court decided Scott v. Sandford in 1857. The case is also known as the Dred Scott decision, and Taney wrote the Court’s majority opinion. John Brown was an abolitionist, while Buchanan and Fillmore were presidents, not chief justices.

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