- Joseph D. Taylor
Joseph Danner Taylor (
November 7 ,1830 -September 19 ,1899 ) was a U.S. Representative fromOhio .Born in
Goshen Township, Clermont County, Ohio , Taylor attended the common schools and Madison College at Antrim.He taught school 1854-1856, and was principal of the Fairview High School in 1857.He studied law inCincinnati, Ohio , and was admitted to the bar in 1859.He was graduated from the Cincinnati Law College in 1860 and commenced practice inCambridge, Ohio , the same year.He was owner of the Guernsey "Times" 1861-1871.During the Civil War entered the
Union Army as a captain in the Eighty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.He was judge advocate of the Department of Indiana in 1863 and 1864. Citizen judge advocate in
Indianapolis, Indiana , in 1865.He served as prosecuting attorney ofGuernsey County, Ohio from 1863 to 1866.He served as delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalist Convention in 1866.He served as member of the Cambridge School Board 1870-1877.He served as delegate to theRepublican National Convention s in 1876 and 1880.Taylor was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jonathan T. Updegraff.He was reelected to the Forty-eighth Congress and served from
January 2 ,1883 , toMarch 3 ,1885 .He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress.Taylor was elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses (
March 4 ,1887 -March 3 ,1893 ).He died inCambridge, Ohio ,September 19 ,1899 .He was interred in the South Cemetery.ource
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