appointed by the Maryland Legislature, he delivered the address upon the unveiling of sculptor William Henry Rinehart's statue of Maryland's own Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, (1777-1864), of the United States Supreme Court, eight years after his death, having served since 1835 and the similarly long tenure of Chief Justice John Marshall. Trivia One of his colleagues imprisoned with him in the 1860s, Henry Mactier Warfield, named his fifth son Teackle Wallis Warfield. He in turn in 1896 named his daughter Bessie Wallis Warfield. She later became famous as Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. Legacy A bronze statue of Wallis in his likeness, was erected to his memory and stands east of the Washington Monument in West Mount Vernon Place in the park square sloping downhill to the east facing St. Paul Street along East Monument Street in Baltimore, Maryland, on a pedestal with his name and birth-death years. A bust of Wallis stands outside the ceremonial courtroom of the Mitchell Courthouse in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. Published works Wallis contributed to many periodicals and numerous pamphlets on legal and literary subjects. Wallis also published: Glimpses of Spain (1849) Spain: Her Institutions, Politics, and Public Men (1853) Discourse on the Life and Character of George Peabody (1870) The Guerrillas: A Southern War Song. Composed by Wallis during the time he was imprisoned in the "Yankee Bastille" which was located at the Narrows of New York Harbor and held Confederate prisoners during the Civil War (1862) References External links Severn Teackle Wallis Statue – Explore Baltimore Heritage Bibliography Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography; vol. vi.; pp. 338, 339; Edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske; New York: D. Appleton and Company (1889) 1816 births 1894 deaths Members of the Maryland House of Delegates American political writers American male non-fiction writers Maryland lawyers University of Maryland, Baltimore faculty People of Maryland in the American Civil War St. Mary's Seminary and University alumni Maryland Whigs 19th-century American politicians Maryland Democrats Maryland Know Nothings 19th-century American lawyers Southern Historical Society