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ROGER BROOKE, an American statesman; born in Calvert co., Md., March 17, 1777; was graduated at Dickinson College in 1795; admitted to the bar in 1799, and elected to the house of delegates in the autumn of the same year. During the war with Great Britdelegates in the autumn of the same year. During the war with Great Britment. In 1816 he was sent to the State senate; in 1827 became attorney-general of Maryland and in December, 1831, succeeded John M. Berrien as attorney-general of the United States. He was appointed Secretary of the Treasury under President Jackson on Sept. 24, 1833, but was forced to resign the next year, owing to his action with regard to the removal of the treasury deposits. On Dec. 26, 1835, however, he was nominated Chief- Justice of the United States and conof the treasury deposits. On Dec. 26, March 15, 1836. While in this office he rendered decisions on many important cases, notably those of Dred Scott, and March 15, 1836. While in this office he Fugitive Slave Law. He died in Washington, D. C., Oct. 12. 1864. TANGENT Nyanza. It extends from about lat. 3° 25' to 8° 40' S., and from lon. 29° 20' to Central Africa, to the S. of Lake Albert Nyanza. It extends from about lat. 3° is 2,700 feet above the level of the sea. 32° 20′ E. It is 420 miles long, has an average breadth of about 30 miles, and is 2,700 feet above the level of the sea.
The basin in which it lies is inclosed by an almost continuous series of hills and mountains. It is fed by numerous rivers and streamlets, and discharges by the are several London Missionary Society river Lukuga into the Kongo. There stations on Tanganyika, and on the E. shore is the Arab town of Ujiji. A car- Burton in 1858. Since the Peace Treaty of 1919 it belongs to the British post of the "Department of Tanganyika," shared with Belgium. The lake was in the war zone in 1916-1918.