J. Alfred Taylor

J. Alfred Taylor

James Alfred Taylor (born September 25, 1878 in Ironton , Ohio , †  June 9, 1956 in Montgomery , West Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1927 he represented the sixth constituency of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Alfred Taylor attended public schools in his home country and then worked for a printing company in Ironton. He later moved to Alderson , West Virginia, where he got into the newspaper business. In 1905 he moved to Fayette County, West Virginia. Between 1908 and 1911 he was a member of the national guard of this state.

Politically, Taylor was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1916 and 1918 and from 1920 to 1922 he was a member of the West Virginia House of Representatives . In 1922 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth district of West Virginia . On March 4, 1923, he succeeded the Republican Leonard S. Echols , whom he had defeated in the election. After a re-election in 1924, Taylor was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1927 . In the 1926 election he was defeated by Republican Edward T. England .

After retiring from Congress, Taylor returned to the newspaper business. In 1928 he ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for gubernatorial elections in West Virginia. In the years 1930 to 1932 and between 1936 and 1938 he was again a member of the State House of Representatives, of which he was speaker from 1930 to 1932. Between 1941 and 1945, Taylor was secretary of the West Virginia Alcohol Commission. In 1946 he was elected to the Fayette County Education Committee for six years. Alfred Taylor died on June 9, 1956 in Montgomery and was buried in Fayetteville .

Web links

• J. Alfred Taylor in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• J. Alfred Taylor in the database of Find a Grave (English)