Of Buchanan and the nine justices involved in Dred Scott, only one was a New Englander and he was one of the two dissenters. Both dissenters were educated in New England but only one from the majority. On the other hand, the list includes five Southerners, two Pennsylvanians and three from Dickinson College.
* James Buchanan - Pennsylvania, educated at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania
Majority from Dred Scott:
* Roger B. Taney - Maryland, Dickinson
* James Moore Wayne - Georgia, educated at what later became Princeton in New Jersey
* John Catron - Tennessee, self-educated
* Peter V. Daniel - Virginia, one year at Princeton, then self-educated
* Samuel Nelson - New York, Middlebury College in Vermont
* Robert Cooper Grier - Pennsylvania, Dickinson
* John Archibald Campbell - Georgia/Alabama, University of Georgia
Dissenters in Dred Scott:
* John McLean - Ohio, Harvard
* Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Massachusetts, Harvard
Of Buchanan and the nine justices involved in Dred Scott, only one was a New Englander and he was one of the two dissenters. Both dissenters were educated in New England but only one from the majority. On the other hand, the list includes five Southerners, two Pennsylvanians and three from Dickinson College.
* James Buchanan - Pennsylvania, educated at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania
Majority from Dred Scott:
* Roger B. Taney - Maryland, Dickinson
* James Moore Wayne - Georgia, educated at what later became Princeton in New Jersey
* John Catron - Tennessee, self-educated
* Peter V. Daniel - Virginia, one year at Princeton, then self-educated
* Samuel Nelson - New York, Middlebury College in Vermont
* Robert Cooper Grier - Pennsylvania, Dickinson
* John Archibald Campbell - Georgia/Alabama, University of Georgia
Dissenters in Dred Scott:
* John McLean - Ohio, Harvard
* Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Massachusetts, Harvard