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Input (English): Roger Brooke Taney ( ; March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864. He delivered the majority opinion in "Dred Scott v. Sandford" (1857), that ruled, among other things, that African-Americans, having been considered inferior at the time the United States Constitution was drafted, were not part of the original community of citizens and, whether free or slave, could not be considered citizens of the United States, which created an uproar among abolitionists and the free states of the northern U.S. He was the first Roman Catholic (and first non-Protestant) appointed both to a presidential cabinet, as Attorney General under President Andrew Jackson, as well as to the Court. Question: Which Chief Justice who was born in 1777 delivered the majority opinion in the case 60 U.S. 393 in 1857 with a 7-2 decision? Answer: Roger B. Taney
Output (English): Roger Brooke Taney  ; March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864 was the fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864.