George W. Taylor

George W. Taylor

George Washington Taylor (born January 16, 1849 on the Roselawn plantation in Montgomery County , Alabama , † December 21, 1932 in Rome , Georgia ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ).

Career

George Washington Taylor attended private schools and undertook in November 1864 when a school in Columbia ( South Carolina attended), in the Confederate Army , where he remained until the end of the war served. He then graduated from the University of South Carolina at Columbia in 1867 . After that, he taught in Mobile (Alabama), where he also Jura studied. He was admitted to the bar in November 1871 and then began practicing in Butler, Alabama , in 1872 .

Taylor also pursued a political career. He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives in 1878 and 1879 . He then served as a solicitor for the Alabama First Judicial District between 1880 and 1892 . However, he declined a third term. During this time he moved to Demopolis in 1883 . Taylor was elected to the 55th US Congress and re - elected to the eight subsequent conventions . In 1914 he decided against running again. Taylor was in the US House of Representatives from March 4, 1897 to March 3, 1915. During this time he chaired the Democratic State Party Congress, which convened the Constituent Assembly in 1901. After his last term of office he went back to his practice as a lawyer in Demopolis. He also took part in 1920 as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention .

Taylor died in 1932 while visiting Rome, Georgia, and his body was then transferred to Montgomery , where he was buried in Oakwood Cemetery .

literature

• The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1904-6 by Booker T. Washington and Louis R. Harlan, Louis R. Harlan, Raymond Smock, University of Illinois Press, 1972, ISBN 9780252007286 , pages 4ff

Web links

• George W. Taylor in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• The Political Graveyard