 |
History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VirginiaTAYLOR, John
(1753—1824)
Senate Years of Service:
1792-1794; 1803-1803; 1822-1823; 1823-1824
Party:
Anti-Administration; Democratic Republican; Democratic Republican; Crawford Republican
TAYLOR, John, a Senator from Virginia known as ‘John Taylor of Caroline’ to distinguish him from others of the same name; born in either Orange or Caroline County, Va., probably on December 19, 1753; educated by private tutors; studied at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., 1770-1772; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Caroline County in 1774; served in the Revolutionary War as major and colonel; member, State house of delegates 1779-1785, with the exception of 1782, and 1796-1800; retired from the practice of law and engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected in 1792 to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Richard Henry Lee; reelected in 1793 and served from October 18, 1792, until his resignation on May 11, 1794; presidential elector in 1797; appointed to the United States Senate as a Democratic Republican to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Stevens T. Mason and served from June 4 to December 7, 1803, when a successor was elected; was not a candidate for election to fill the vacancy; elected in 1822 to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Pleasants; reelected as a Crawford Republican in 1823, and served from December 18, 1822, until his death in Caroline County, Va., August 21, 1824; interment on Hazelwood farm, near Port Royal, Caroline County, Va.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography
; Hill, Charles William, Jr. The Political Theory of John Taylor of Caroline
. Rutherfurd, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1976; Shalhope, Robert E. John Taylor of Caroline
. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1980.
Bailor, Keith M. “John Taylor of Caroline: Continuity, Change, and Discontinuity in Virginia’s Sentiments toward Slavery, 1790-1820.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
75 (July 1967): 290-304.
Barton, Tom K. “John Taylor of Caroline: Republicanism in the Kentucky Constitution of 1792.” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
73 (April 1975): 105-21.
Craven, Avery. “John Taylor and Southern Agriculture.” Journal of Southern History
4 (May 1938): 137-47.
Dauer, Manning J., and Hans Hammond. “John Taylor: Democrat or Aristocrat?” Journal of Politics
6 (November 1944): 381-403.
Dodd, William E. “John Taylor, of Caroline, Prophet of Secession.” John P. Branch Historical Papers of Randolph-Macon College
2 (June 1908): 214-52.
___, ed. “Letters of John Taylor, of Caroline County, Virginia.” John P. Branch Historical Papers of Randolph-Macon College
2 (June 1908): 253-353.
Drell, Bernard. “John Taylor of Caroline and the Preservation of an Old Social Order.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
46 (October 1938): 285-98.
Duke, Maurice. “John Taylor of Caroline, 1753-1824: Notes Toward a Bibliography.” Early American Literature
6 (Spring 1971): 69-72.
Dunlap, Orell Alva. “The Economic Ideas of John Taylor.” Master’s thesis, Duke University, 1934.
Foshee, Andrew W. “Jeffersonian Political Economy and the Classical Republican Tradition: Jefferson, Taylor, and the Agrarian Republic.” History of Political Economy
17 (Winter 1985): 523-50.
Grampp, William D. “John Taylor: Economist of Southern Agrarianism.” Southern Economic Journal
11 (January 1945): 255-68.
Harp, Gillis, J. “Taylor, Calhoun, and the Decline of a Theory of Political Disharmony.” Journal of the History of Ideas
46 (January-March 1985): 107-20.
Hill, C. William, Jr. “Contrasting Themes in the Political Theories of Jefferson, Calhoun, and John Taylor of Caroline.” Publius
6 (Summer 1976): 73-91.
___. The Political Theory of John Taylor of Caroline
. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1976.
Lytle, Andrew Nelson. “John Taylor and the Political Economy of Agriculture.” American Review
3 (September 1934): 432-47; (October 1934): 630-43; 4 (November 1934): 84-99.
MacLeod, Duncan. “The Political Economy of John Taylor of Caroline.” Journal of American Studies
14 (December 1980): 387-406.
Mudge, Eugene TenBroeck. The Social Philosophy of John Taylor of Caroline: A Study in Jeffersonian Democracy
. 1939. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1968.
Riven, Audrey A. “John Taylor, John C. Calhoun, and Roger B. Taney: Three Views of States Rights.” Master’s thesis, Vanderbilt University, 1960.
Shalhope, Robert E. “The Arator Essays and the ‘Fallacy of the Prevalent Proof’.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
84 (July 1976): 283-86.
___. John Taylor of Caroline: Pastoral Republican
. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1980.
Simms, Henry Harrison. Life of John Taylor: The Story of a Brilliant Leader in the Early Virginia States Rights School
. Richmond: William Byrd Press, 1932.
Stohrer, Freda F. “Arator: A Publishing History.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
88 (October 1980): 442-45.
Taylor, John. Arator: Being a Series of Agricultural Essays, Practical and Political, in Sixty-four Numbers
. 1813. New ed., edited by Melvin E. Bradford. Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1977. A series of essays published in The Spirit of ‘Seventy-Six (Washington), December 25, 1810 et seq.
___. Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
. 1820. Facsimile ed. New York: Da Capo Press, 1970.
___. Disunion Sentiment in Congress in 1794.
Edited by Gaillard Hunt. Washington: W.H. Lowdermilk & Co., 1905.
___. An Inquiry into the Principles and Tendency of Certain Public Measures
. Philadelphia: T. Dobson, 1794.
___. An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States
. 1814. Reprint, edited by Loren Baritz. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1969.
___. New Views of the Constitution of the United States
. 1823. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.
___. Tyranny Unmasked
. 1822. Reprint, with new introduction by Forrest McDonald. Cumberland, VA: James River Press, 1990.
Thompson, Carol L. “John Taylor of Caroline: Forgotten Prophet.”Current History
13 (November 1947): 264-69.
Wharton, Leslie. Polity and the Public Good: Conflicting Theories of Republican Government in the New Nation
. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1980.
Wright, Benjamin F., Jr. “The Philosopher of Jeffersonian Democracy.” American Political Science Review
22 (November 1928): 870-92.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
Related Links
|
|
