George W. Taylor

George Washington Taylor (January 16, 1849 - December 21, 1932) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.

Born on "Roselawn" plantation near Montgomery, Alabama, Taylor attended private schools. While a schoolboy in Columbia, South Carolina, enlisted in the Confederate States Army in November 1864, and served until the end of the war.He was graduated from the University of South Carolina at Columbia in 1867.He taught school in Mobile, Alabama, and studied law.He was admitted to the bar in Mobile, Alabama, in November 1871 and commenced practice in Butler, Alabama, in 1872.He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1878 and 1879. State solicitor for the first judicial circuit of Alabama 1880-1892.He declined a third term.He moved to Demopolis, Alabama, in 1883.

Taylor was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1915).He was not a candidate for renomination in 1914.He resumed the practice of law in Demopolis, Alabama.He served as chairman of the State Democratic convention which called the constitutional convention in 1901.He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1920.He died in Rome, Georgia, while on a visit in that city, on December 21, 1932.He was interred in Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama.

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* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor4.html Entry at the Political Graveyard]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=tN1isaLBtbIC&pg=PA6&dq=%22George+Washington+Taylor%22+1849&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U2G9fDNyIieV9cjWmsjEF0VgzYwBw#PPA6,M1 A letter from Booker T. Washington to him]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=YCsEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA396&dq=%22George+Washington+Taylor%22+1849&lr=&client=firefox-a#PPA396,M1 An entry for him in a Whos-Who type of book]