Lists of United States public officials who owned slaves

This is a list of lists of United States public officials who owned slaves:

• List of presidents of the United States who owned slaves
• List of vice presidents of the United States who owned slaves
• List of members of the United States Congress who owned slaves
• List of United States Supreme Court Justices who owned slaves

Justice Taney manumitted "most (but not all)" of his slaves as young man and was "deeply committed to slavery" throughout his life (Brady-Handy collection, Library of Congress)

See also

• John Quincy Adams and abolitionism
• Slavery in the District of Columbia