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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeJohn May TAYLOR
(1838-1911)
TAYLOR, John May, a
Representative from Tennessee; born in Lexington, Henderson County,
Tenn., May 18, 1838; attended the Male Academy in Lexington and the
Union University, Murfreesboro, Tenn.; was graduated from the law
department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1861; was
admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in
Lexington; enlisted in the Confederate Army; was elected first
lieutenant in June 1861 and promoted to captain; elected major in
the Twenty-seventh Tennessee Regiment in 1862; mayor of Lexington
in 1869 and 1870; delegate to the State constitutional convention
of Tennessee in 1870; attorney general of the eleventh judicial
circuit of Tennessee 1870-1878; delegate to the Democratic National
Convention in 1880; member of the State house of representatives in
1881 and 1882; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and
Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); chairman,
Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy
(Forty-ninth Congress); member of the State senate in 1892; resumed
the practice of law; was appointed judge of the criminal court for
the eleventh judicial circuit in 1895 and subsequently elected for
a six-year term, serving until the court was abolished; elected in
August 1902 as a judge of the court of chancery appeals (name
changed to court of civil appeals by the legislature); reelected in
1910 for a period of eight years and served until his death; died
in Lexington, Tenn., February 17, 1911; interment in Lexington
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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