Zachary Taylor (politician, 1849)

Zachary Taylor (born May 9, 1849 in Brownsville , Tennessee , † February 19, 1921 in Ellendale , Tennessee) was an American politician . Between 1885 and 1887 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Zachary Taylor was born two months after US President Zachary Taylor took office . He first attended JI Hall's School near Covington and then until 1872 the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington . After a subsequent law degree at Cumberland University in Lebanon and his admission to the bar, he began to work in Covington in his new profession in 1878. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1881 and 1883 Taylor was a member of the Tennessee Senate ; from 1883 to 1885 he was a postman in Covington.

In the congressional elections of 1884 Taylor was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the tenth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded H. Casey Young on March 4, 1885 . Since he was not confirmed in 1886, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1887 . After leaving the US House of Representatives, he moved to Memphis , where he worked in the life insurance industry. In 1896 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in St. Louis , where William McKinley was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the meantime, Taylor moved to San Antonio , Texas . He died on 19 February 1921 in Ellendale and was in the name of its patron Zachary Taylor National Cemetery in Louisville ( Kentucky buried). The former president and several of his relatives are buried there; there was apparently no relationship between the two politicians of the same name.

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SURNAME	Taylor, Zachary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 9, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	near Brownsville , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH	February 19, 1921
Place of death	Ellendale , Tennessee