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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New York / USJohn W. TAYLOR
(1784-1854)
TAYLOR, John W., a
Representative from New York; born in Charlton, N.Y., March 26,
1784; received his early education at home; was graduated from
Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1803; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1807 and commenced practice in Ballston Spa,
N.Y.; organized the Ballston Center Academy; justice of the peace
in 1808; member of the state assembly in 1812 and 1813; elected as
a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress and reelected to the four
succeeding Congresses, elected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the
Eighteenth Congress, reelected as an Adams candidate to the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses, and elected as an
Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses
(March 4, 1813-March 3, 1833); chairman, Committee on Elections
(Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses), Committee on Revisal and
Unfinished Business (Fifteenth Congress), Committee on Elections
(Sixteenth Congress); Speaker of the House of Representatives
(Sixteenth and Nineteenth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1832 to the Twenty-third Congress; resumed the
practice of law in Ballston Spa, N.Y.; member of the state senate
in 1840 and 1841, but resigned in consequence of a paralytic
stroke; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1843, and died there September
18, 1854; interment in the Ballston Spa Village Cemetery, Ballston
Spa, Saratoga County, N.Y.
Bibliography
Spann, Edward K. “John W. Taylor, The Reluctant Partisan,
1784-1854.” Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1957; Spann,
Edward K. “The Souring of Good Feelings: John W. Taylor and
the Speakership Election of 1821.” New York History 41
(October 1960): 379-99.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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