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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkJohn James TAYLOR
(1808-1892)
TAYLOR, John James, a
Representative from New York; born in Leominster, Worcester County,
Mass., April 27, 1808; attended the common schools, New Ipswich
Academy, and Groton Academy; was graduated from Harvard University
in 1829; engaged in teaching for a short time; moved to Troy, N.Y.,
in 1830; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1834 and commenced
practice in Greene, Chenango County, N.Y.; moved to Owego, N.Y., in
1834 and continued the practice of law; appointed district attorney
of Tioga County in 1838, and served until 1843, when he resigned;
member of the village board of trustees in 1839, 1843, and 1848;
first chief engineer of the fire department in 1844; member of the
State constitutional convention in 1846; unsuccessful candidate for
election in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress; elected as a
Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3,
1855); resumed the practice of his profession; tendered the
appointment of commissioner to settle the northwestern boundary of
the United States by President Franklin Pierce, but declined the
position; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor
of New York in 1858; president of the village of Owego in 1859;
engaged in banking; elected vice president and later president of
the Southern Central Railway Co., later the Auburn division of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad Co.; died in Owego, Tioga County, N.Y., July
1, 1892; interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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