Joseph Taggart

Joseph Taggart

Joseph Taggart (born June 15, 1867 in Waukon , Iowa , † December 3, 1938 in Wadsworth , Kansas ) was an American politician . Between 1911 and 1917 he represented the second constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Taggart attended the public schools in his homeland. In 1885 he moved to Salina , Kansas with his father . There he studied at Salina Normal University until 1890 . In the years 1892 and 1893 Taggart worked as a teacher in Bavaria . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1893, he began to practice his new profession in Salina. In 1900 he moved to Kansas City, Kansas. Between 1907 and 1911 he served as the district attorney in Wyandotte County .

Taggart was a member of the Democratic Party . After the death of Congressman Alexander C. Mitchell , he was elected as his successor in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the by-election in the second district of Kansas that became necessary . After he was confirmed in his mandate in the following two regular congressional elections, he could remain in Congress between November 7, 1911 and March 3, 1917 . In the elections of 1916 he was defeated by Republican Edward C. Little .

During the First World War , Taggart was a captain in the US Army . After the war, he returned to working as a lawyer in Kansas City. In 1924 he was appointed Judge of the Court of Industrial Relations . He died on December 3, 1938 in Wadsworth and was buried in Atchison .

Web links

• Joseph Taggart in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joseph Taggart in the database of Find a Grave (English)