Nelson Taylor

Nelson Taylor

Nelson Taylor (born June 8, 1821 in South Norwalk , Connecticut , † January 16, 1894 ibid) was an American officer , lawyer and politician . Between 1865 and 1867 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Nelson Taylor was born and raised in South Norwalk about six years after the end of the British-American War . During this time he attended community schools. After the outbreak of the Mexican-American War , he enlisted in the first regiment of the New York Volunteer Infantry on August 1, 1846, and was sent to California in the same year before the fighting broke out there. On September 18, 1848, he was honorably discharged. He stayed in California and ran a business in Stockton . Between 1850 and 1856 he was a member of the California Senate . During the same period he was President of the Board of Trustees of the State Insane Asylum .

In 1855 he was elected sheriff in San Joaquin County . He later moved to New York City . He graduated from Harvard University's law department in 1860 . After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice. Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1860 , he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the US House of Representatives. After the outbreak of the Civil War , he enlisted as a Colonel on July 23, 1861 in the 62nd Regiment of the New York Volunteer Infantry . On September 7, 1862, he was promoted to Brigadier General of the Volunteers and on January 19, 1863, he resigned from active service. He then resumed his practice in New York City.

In the congressional elections of 1864 Nelson Taylor was elected as his party's candidate in the fifth constituency of New York to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Fernando Wood on March 4, 1865 . In 1866 he was defeated in his re-election bid and was eliminated from the after March 3, 1867 Congress of.

He then moved back to South Norwalk in 1869, where he worked as a lawyer. Taylor was a city ​​attorney there several times . He died on January 16, 1894 in South Norwalk and was buried there in Riverside Cemetery .

Web links

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

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