The fifth Chief Justice of the United States, he succeeded John Marshall in 1836
[DOC] [TLE] The Marshall and Taney Courts: Continuities and Changes | The ... [PAR] John Marshall and Roger B. Taney (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs) 
... position of honor or power, the office of chief justice of the United States has a 
pivotal ... Madison (1803), in which he vindicated the Court's power of judicial 
review (the ... Only in the spring of 1836 did the Senate relent and confirm 
Jackson's... [DOC] [TLE] Roger Brooke Taney (1777-1864) - The Latin Library [PAR] Fifth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1836-64), 
remembered ...