Nathaniel Green Taylor

Nathaniel Green Taylor

Nathaniel Green Taylor (born December 29, 1819 in Happy Valley , Carter County , Tennessee , †  April 1, 1887 ) was an American politician . Between 1854 and 1855 and again from 1866 to 1867 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Nathaniel Taylor was the father of the later congressman and governor of Tennessee, Alfred A. Taylor (1848-1931), and of Robert Love Taylor (1850-1912), who was also governor of Tennessee and represented this state in both chambers of Congress . He initially received a private education and then attended Washington College near Jonesborough . He then studied at Princeton College until 1840 . After studying law and his admission as a lawyer in 1841, he began to work in Elizabethton in his new profession.

Politically, Taylor joined the Whig Party . After the death of the Democratic Congressman Brookins Campbell , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC when he was due for the by-election for the first seat of Tennessee , where he took up his new mandate on March 30, 1854. Since he was defeated by the Democrat Albert Galiton Watkins in the regular congressional elections of 1854 , he was only able to end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1855. This was shaped by the discussions about slavery in the run-up to the civil war .

In the presidential election of 1860 , Nathaniel Taylor was elector for John Bell , the candidate for the Constitutional Union Party . During the civil war he sympathized with the Union. He later became a member of an association that campaigned for the victims of the war in eastern Tennessee. He also gave promotional lectures on this topic. After Tennessee was re-elected to the Union in 1866, Taylor was re-elected as a Unionist in the First Constituency . Since he was no longer running in the following regular elections, he was only able to end one legislative period in Congress between July 24, 1866 and March 3, 1867. That time was determined by the conflict between the Republican Party and President Andrew Johnson .

Between 1867 and 1869 Taylor was the federal government's Indian commissioner. He then withdrew from politics. In the following years he worked as a farmer and preacher. He died on April 1, 1887 in his hometown of Happy Valley.

Web links

• Nathaniel Green Taylor in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Nathaniel Green Taylor in the database of Find a Grave (English)