Two days after this president’s inauguration, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Dred Scott decision.
- James Buchanan
- Millard Fillmore
- Abraham Lincoln
- Franklin Pierce
Two days after this president’s inauguration, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Dred Scott decision.
James Buchanan. Eleven years after the case began; the U.S. Supreme Court determined that an African-American is not a person under the U.S. Constitution.
This decision was handed down on March 6, 1857.