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 TAYLOR

TAYLOR

Xew T'/>H'.s" of the Conxtitntion of the United States (1824). St'iiiitttr Taylor dieil in Caroline county, Va., Axv^. '20, 1834.

TAYLOR, John, governor of South Carolina, was born near Columltia. S.C., May 4, 17T0. He was ;;railuatea from tlio College of New Jersey, A.B., ITDO ; began the study of law with Charles C. Pinckney at Cluirleston, 1791 ; and commenced practice in Columbia in 1793, but devoted his time more especially to planting. He was a member of both houses of the state leg- islature for several yeai-s ; a representative from Soutli Carolina in the 10th and lltli congresses, from Oct. 26, 1807. to Dec. 31, 1810, wlien he was re-elected U.S. senator to complete the terra (e.xpiring Marcli 3, 1811) of Thomas Sumter, re- signed, lie was re-elected for a full term in 1811, and served until his resignation in 1816, William Smith completing his term March 3, 1817. He was a representative in the 14th con- gress, 1816-17 ; was the defeated candiilate for representative to the loth and 17th congresses ; state senator, 1822, and governor of South Caro- lina. 1826-28. He served for several j-ears as a trustee of the College of South Carolina. He died at Taylor's Hill. Columbia, S.C, Feb. 23, 1832.

TAYLOR, John L., representative, was born in Stair. >rd county, Va., March 7, 1803. He studied law at Washington city, was admitted to the bar in 1828, removed toChillicotlie, Ohio, in 1829, and was a Wliig representative from the eighth district of Oliio to the 30th, 31st, 32dand 33d con- gresses, 1847-o5. He became a clerk in the de- partment of interior in 1870, and died, sitting at his desk, in Washington, D.C., Sept. 6, 1870.

TAYLOR, John Louis, jurist, was born in London, Eng., March 1, 1769. He accompanied his brotlier James to Virginia in 1781 ; attended William and Mary college, and established him- self in the practice of law at Fayetteville, N.C., in 1788. He w;is a representative in the state leg- islature, 1792-9.J ; was judge of the superior court, 1798-1808 ; chief-justice, 1808-18, and was elected cliief-justice of the newly formed supreme court of Xortli Carolina in 1818. He was a trustee of the University of North Carolina. 1793-1818, and was twice married, first to Julia Rowan and sec- ondly to Jane, .sister of Judge William Gaston. He was associated with Jm'.ge Henry Potter, in publishing a revision of the statute law of North Carolina, 1817-21, known as " Potter's Revisal," and in 182-5 he continued the work under the name, " Taylor's Revisal." He is also the author of : Cn-tea in the Superior Courts of Law and Equity of the State of North Carolina (1802) ; The Xorth Carolina Law Repository (2 vols. 1814-16) ; Term Reptjrta (1818), and Treatise on Duties of Exeentors and Administrafnrs (1852). He died in 'Raleigh, N.C., Jan. 29, 1829.

TAYLOR, John W., representative, was born in C;liarlton, N.\\, March 26, 1784. He was grad- uated at Union college in 1803, and in the same year organized Ballston Centre academy. He was admitted to the bar in 1807, was elected justice of the peace of Ballston Spa in 1808, and was a member of the state assembly, 1812-13. He was a Democratic representative from New York in the 13th-22d congresses, 1813-1833, and was tem- porary speaker of the house during the second session of the 16th congress in 1820, owing to the absence of Henry Clay. He presented an amend- ment to the bill offered by Representative George Robertson (q.v.), by wliicii he provided that slaverj' should be interdicted, which was rescinded by the casting vote of Speaker Clay ; and was in the chair at the time the Missouri compromise was passed. He was speaker of the 19th con- gress, 1825-27, was a member of the National Re- publican party in 1828, and in 1836 joined the new Whig party. He served in the state senate, 1849-41, and in 1843 removed to the home of his daughter in Cleveland, Ohio, where he died, Sept. 8, 1854.

TAYLOR, Joseph Danner, representative, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, Nov. 7, 1830. He attended IMadison seminary, taught school, and was principal of the Fairview high school. He was admitted to the bar in 1859 ; was graduated at the Cincinnati Law college in 1860, and was half owner and editor of the Guernsey Times, 1860-70. He was a member of the district mil- itary committee, 1861-63 ; was elected prosecut- ing attorney of Guernsey county, 1863 ; became captain in the 88th Oliio volunteers in 1863, and was soon after made judge-advocate for the de- partment of Indiana, serving until the close of the war. He was made citizen judge advocate at Indianapolis in 1865 ; was a delegate from Ohio to the Pliiladelphia Loyalist convention, 1866, an alternate delegate from his district in the Republican national convention of 1876, and in the national convention of 1880 was a regular dele» gate. He was elected a Republican representative from the sixteenth district of Ohio in the 47th con- gress to complete the unexpii-ed term of J. T. Updegraff, who died, November, 1882, serving, 1882-83, and was a representative from the seven- teenth district of Oliio in the 48th, 50th, 51st and 52d congresses, 1883-85 and 1887-93. He was president of the Cambridge school board, and was prominent in several large corporations, being president of the Guernsey National bank and of the Oliio National bank. He died in Cam- bridge, Oliio, Sept. 19. 1899.

TAYLOR, Margaret Smith, wife of President Taylor, was born in Calvert (bounty. Md.. about 1790 ; daughter of Maj. Walter .Smitli. an officer of the U.S. army and an extensive planter in