J. Will Taylor

J. Will Taylor

James Willis Taylor (August 28, 1880 - November 14, 1939) was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee.

Born near Lead Mine Bend in Union County, Tennessee, Taylor attended the public schools, Holbrook Normal College, Fountain City, Tennessee, and the American Temperance University, Harriman, Tennessee.He taught school for several years.He was graduated from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1902.He was admitted to the bar the same year.He moved to La Follette, Tennessee, and commenced practice.He served as postmaster at La Follette 1904-1909 and as mayor from 1910-1913 and in 1918 and 1919.He also was Insurance commissioner for the State of Tennessee in 1913 and 1914 and chairman of the Republican State executive committee in 1917 and 1918.

Taylor was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until his death.He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses).He served as member of the Republican National Executive Committee 1929-1939.He died in La Follette, Tennessee, November 14, 1939.He was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery.

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