Edward T. Taylor

Edward T. Taylor

Edward Thomas Taylor (born June 19, 1858 in Metamora , Illinois , † September 3, 1941 in Denver , Colorado ) was an American politician . Between 1909 and 1913 he represented the third and from 1913 to 1941 the fourth constituency of the state of Colorado in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edward Taylor was born on a farm in Woodford County . He attended public schools in Illinois and Kansas . After moving to Leadville , Colorado, he was a teacher at the local high school in 1881 and 1882. After studying law at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his admission to the bar in 1884, he began working in this profession in Leadville. In 1884 he became a school councilor in Lake County , and in 1885 he was appointed assistant district attorney.

In 1887 Taylor moved to Glenwood Springs . Between 1887 and 1889 he was a prosecutor in the Ninth Judicial District of Colorado. He was a member of the Democratic Party and served in the Colorado Senate from 1896 to 1908 . In the congressional election of 1908, he was elected to succeed George W. Cook in the US House of Representatives in Washington . There he represented the third electoral district of Colorado for two legislative terms between March 4, 1909 and March 3, 1913. In the elections of 1912 he ran in the newly created fourth district, which he represented in Congress after 14 re-elections until his death in 1941 . During this time he was chairman of the water rights committee from 1917 to 1919 and a member of the budget committee from 1937 to 1941. Edward Taylor died as a sitting Congressman in 1941. After a by-election, his seat fell to Republican Robert F. Rockwell .

Web links

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• Edward T. Taylor in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edward T. Taylor in the database of Find a Grave (English)