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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IdahoTAYLOR, Glen Hearst
(1904—1984)
Senate Years of Service:
1945-1951
Party:
Democrat
TAYLOR, Glen Hearst, a Senator from Idaho; born in Portland, Oreg., April 12, 1904; moved to a homestead near Kooskia, Idaho, as a child; attended the public schools of Idaho; joined a dramatic stock company in 1919; owner and manager of various entertainment enterprises 1926-1944; country-western singer; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1940 and 1942; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1944 and served from January 3, 1945, to January 3, 1951; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1950; unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States on the Progressive Party ticket in 1948; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1954 and for the nomination in 1956; president of Coryell Construction Co. 1950-1952, and of Taylor Topper, Inc.; died in Millbrae, Calif., April 28, 1984; interment in Skylawn Cemetery, San Mateo, Calif. of Millbrae, Calif.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives
; Peterson, Frank Ross. Prophet Without Honor: Glen Taylor and the Fight for American Liberalism
. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1974; Taylor, Glen Hearst. The Way It Was With Me.
Secaucus, N.J.: L. Stuart, 1979.
Peterson, F. Ross. “Fighting the Drive Toward War: Glen H. Taylor, the 1948 Progressives, and the Draft.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly
61 (January 1970): 41-45.
___. “Glen H. Taylor and the Bilbo Case.” Phylon
31 (1970): 344-50.
___. Prophet without Honor: Glen Taylor & the Fight for American Liberalism
. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1974.
Pratt, William C. “Glen H. Taylor: Public Image and Reality.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly
60 (January 1969): 10-16.
___. “Senator Glen H. Taylor: Questioning American Unilateralism.” In Cold War Critics: Alternatives to American Foreign Policy in the Truman Years
, edited by Thomas G. Paterson, pp. 140-66. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971.
Taylor, Glen Hearst. The Way It Was with Me.
Secaucus, NJ: L. Stuart, 1979.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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