John C. Taylor (politician)

John Clarence Taylor (born March 2, 1890 in Honea Path , Anderson County , South Carolina , †  March 25, 1983 in Anderson , South Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1939 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Taylor attended the common schools and the Fruitland Institute in Hendersonville ( North Carolina ). During the First World War he completed military officer training. After a subsequent law degree at the University of South Carolina at Columbia , he was admitted to the bar in 1919. In the following years he worked in agriculture. He was also from 1920 to 1933 notary ( Register of Deeds ) in Anderson County.

Politically, Taylor was a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1932 congressional election he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of South Carolina . There he took over from Frederick H. Dominick on March 4, 1933 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1939 . In 1933 the 21st amendment to the constitution was passed there, repealing the 18th amendment from 1919. It was about the prohibition law . During his time in the House of Representatives, most of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt .

In 1938 Taylor was not nominated by his party for another legislative term. From 1951 to 1954 and again from 1959 to 1962 he was a member of the South Carolina Senate . John Taylor spent his old age in Anderson. He died there in March 1983 at the age of 93. He was buried in his native Honea Path.

Web links

• John C. Taylor in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John C. Taylor in the database of Find a Grave (English)