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MARCH 17 — 1777 Happy birthday Roger Taney, Fhief Justice of Taney Court; 1804 Happy Birthday Jim Bridger; 1995  Happy birthday UFC crusher Claressa Rex Sheilds

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Buy Valium Now 1777 – Happy birthday Roger Taney Chief Justice of the Taney Court.

Old Hickory Jackson nominated him on Jackson’s birthday in 1836, no less! One interesting thing about America’s 5th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who ruled pro-slavery in the Dred Scott case, was that he was married to Anne Phoebe Carlton Key, the sister of Francis Scott Key who of course wrote The Star Spangled Banner. That’s not why he’s famous, but on another interesting note they had seven children together.

https://space1026.com/2024/01/wxz7jk4t4zw Roger Brooke Taney, born March 17, 1777, the son of a successful tobacco farmer in Calvert County, MD, began his life in law and politics in 1799, starting with the Federalists. By 1816 he had switched to the Democratic – Republican Party and earned a Senate seat in Maryland. He agreed strongly with President Andy Jackson’s opposition to the 2nd Bank of the United States, and assisted Old Hickory dismantles the democratically opposed central bank by literally and physically moving money out of it and putting it into state banks.

https://fireheartmusic.com/8o3he4vxqcz And as great of a story as that was, that’s still not why Taney, who also by the way ruled pro-slavery in Dred-Scott, is famous.

He’s the first Roman Catholic to hold such a high office in America, and that’s not why he’s famous. In 1833 he would be nominated as US Secretary of Treasury, but was rejected, actually, the first time Congress, specifically Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and John Calhoun, overruled the confirmation of a presidential nominee for a Cabinet post.

But that’s not the reason why pro-slavery judge Taney’s famous, just an interesting trivia bit.

In 1835, Chief Justice John Marshall died, which is why Old Hickory filled his spot with Judge Taney. The Taney Court, which ran from 1836-1864, switched up Marshall’s federal leaning decisions, and like Jackson, favored states’ rights. With exception to 1858S Abelson V Booth.  Not all of Taney’s cases were famous, like 1837’s Briscoe V Commonwealth, which dealt with creditors left over from the 2nd Bank of the US, 1842’s Prigg V Pennsylvania, ruling pro-slavery, then some semi-famous cases, such as Charles River Bridge V Warren River Bridge which ruled in favor of charters, and then the big famous one.

Exactly two years to the day 1857’s Dred Scott v Sanford, which I go into detail on my March 6 ep. Taney would receive some boos from the gallery, including a young senator from Illinois named Abraham Lincoln, who would respond to the Dred Scott decision by saying in A House Divided: “”What Dred Scott’s master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with any other one, or 1,000 slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free state.”

By the way you can hear more of that on my June 16th show. Taney would administer the oath of office to Lincoln years later.  For 28 years the Taney Court was in session, my friends, until Judge Roger passed away, leaving a legacy famous for his decision in the Dred Scott case.

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1776-Buh-bye Redcoats
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For the previous eight years there was a bitter hate between the colonists and he British, who occupied the area. The Boston Massacre certainly didn’t help that. On March 4, Ameican Brigbadeier General John Thomas, under George Washington’s order, rounded up 800 soldiers and 1200 workers began began placement of fortification and canons to the Dorchester Heights area, which overlooks Boston from the south. In order to cover up the loud noise that they were making, American canons started blasting from another location to distract the British.

That night Thomas managed to get more than a dozen cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Dorchester. British General Sir William Howe planned to destroy the fortress from their ships in the harbor, but there were two problems. One, the fortified area in Dorchester was too high, and 2), a huge storm set in and limited their abilities, and the Americans had plenty of time to set up their fortress. The British realized they didn’t have a chance here, so they got back in their ships and left. They didn’t return to fight until August.

1804-Happy birthday Jim Bridger!
One of America’s great original mountain men, trapper, scout, and guide who explored and trapped he Western United States from 1820-1850. He was great at surviving extreme conditions from the Rocky Mountains to the Canadian border. He spoke several languages including French, Spanish, English, as well as a few native tribal languages, which helped him to be a good mediator between the local tribes and the encroaching white man.

He got to know many great Westerners such as Kit Carson, George Armstrong Custer, John Fremont, Joseph Meek, and John Sutter. In 1830 he got control of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, got married and remained a trapper for 10 years until he got sick of that vagabond business and in 1840 founded Fort Bridger along the Green River section of the Oregon Trail in present day Wyoming. Life was good and prosperous at this new fort until his first and second wife died. The second one died in childbirth. So he headed back into the mountains to trap and hunt, got married to a Shoshoni, and life was good again.

Until 1853 when the Mormons, who didn’t much care for the competition from his trading fort, tried to arrest Bridger. So he escaped into the mountains with his wife and kids, and the Mormons destroyed his fort. Burned the whole thing down. So he got a farm up in Missouri and lived with his wife andkids, sold Fort Bridger in 1858 and worked as a guide and army scout during the Indian wars. By 1868 he was seriously losing his eyesight so he enjoyed the remainder of his retirement at his farm in Westport, with his apple trees.
Jim Bridger had this thing about telling little white lies and tall tales. There was this one where supposedly a hundred Cheyenne warriors chased Bridger for several miles, boxed him up in a canyon and raised their weapons at him. Then he’d pause and when you say, What happened next, Jim? He’d say, they killed me. Hahaha.
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1905-Happy anniversary, FDR and Eleanor.

When they met, she was two and he was four. Uncle Teddy was the one who gave her away as the bride. And boy was she pissed when she found out in 1918 that the Squirrel of Hyde Park was porking her secretary. She almost divorced him over that, but the mom got her to stay in the marriage. That, and the other affairs the Whodini in the White House would have subsequently, wasn’t as cool as Eleanor’s alledged love affair with female reporter Lorena Hickok. Eleanor of course continued her push for civil rights and humanitarian causes and became a delegate to the UN’s General Assembly in 1948, after FDR’s passing.




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