Appointed by Andrew Jackson, this chief justice's legacy is wrapped up in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which ruled that African Americans could not be considered citizens – widely considered one of the worst Supreme Court rulings in history.

Slavery was alive and well in the days of Roger Brooke Taney, and he supported it. The chief justice served 28 years, 198 days, and, during his tenure, ruled that slavery could not be prohibited by Congress in U.S. territories. Taney's sympathies were with the South after the Civil War, and that was crystal clear in his court.

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