Gene Taylor (politician, 1928)

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Gene Taylor (1985)

Gene Taylor (born February 10, 1928 in Sarcoxie , Jasper County , Missouri , †  October 27, 1998 in Springfield , Missouri) was an American politician . Between 1973 and 1989 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Gene Taylor attended the public schools of his home country and then studied between 1945 and 1947 at Southwest Missouri State College in Springfield. He served in the Missouri National Guard in 1948 and 1949. Between 1958 and 1973 he was a car dealer. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1954 and 1960 he was mayor of Sarcoxie. From 1966 to 1972 Taylor was a member of the Republican National Committee . During the same period he was a delegate to the regional Republican party conventions in Missouri. He also took part in the years 1960 and 1968 as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions , at each of which Richard Nixon was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the 1972 congressional election , Taylor was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the seventh constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Durward Gorham Hall on January 3, 1973 . After seven re-elections, he was able to complete eight legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1989 . During this time the Vietnam War ended . In 1974 the Watergate affair also overshadowed the work of Congress.

In 1988, Gene Taylor declined to run again. He then withdrew from politics. He died in Springfield on October 27, 1998.

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SURNAME Taylor, Gene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH at Sarcoxie , Jasper County , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1998
Place of death Springfield , Missouri