John May Taylor

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John May Taylor, 1911

John May Taylor (born May 18, 1838 in Lexington , Henderson County , Tennessee , †  February 17, 1911 there ) was an American politician . Between 1883 and 1887 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Taylor attended Male Academy in his hometown of Lexington and Union University in Murefreesboro . After a subsequent law degree at Cumberland University in Lebanon and his admission as a lawyer in 1861, he began to work in Lexington in his new profession. During the Civil War he was an officer in the Confederation Army ; in the process he rose to become captain.

After the war, Taylor began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . He was mayor of his hometown Lexington in 1869 and 1870. In 1870 he also took part as a delegate to a meeting to revise the Tennessee Constitution. Between 1870 and 1878 he served as the chief prosecutor in the eleventh judicial district of his state. In 1880 Taylor was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Cincinnati , where Winfield Scott Hancock was nominated as a presidential candidate. From 1881 to 1882 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee .

In the congressional election of 1882 Taylor was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded John DeWitt Clinton Atkins on March 4, 1883 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1887 . From 1885 he was chairman of the Committee for Control of Expenditures of the Ministry of the Navy . After leaving the US House of Representatives, John Taylor practiced law again. In 1892 he was elected to the Tennessee Senate. From 1895 he worked as a judge in various positions. He died on February 17, 1911 in his hometown of Lexington, where he was also buried.

Web links

  • John May Taylor in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, John May
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Lexington , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1911
Place of death Lexington , Tennessee