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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeNathaniel Green TAYLOR
(1819-1887)
TAYLOR, Nathaniel Green,
(father of Alfred Alexander Taylor and Robert Love Taylor), a
Representative from Tennessee; born in Happy Valley, Carter County,
Tenn., December 29, 1819; was educated in private schools and
Washington College, near Jonesboro, Tenn.; was graduated from
Princeton College in 1840; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1841 and commenced practice in Elizabethton, Carter County, Tenn.;
elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Brookins Campbell, who never qualified, and
served from March 30, 1854, to March 3, 1855; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress;
presidential elector on the Constitutional Union ticket of Bell and
Everett in 1860; member of the relief association formed for the
aid of war sufferers in east Tennessee and lectured in their behalf
throughout the East; upon the readmission of Tennessee to
representation was elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-ninth
Congress and served from July 24, 1866, to March 3, 1867; was not a
candidate for renomination in 1866, Commissioner of Indian Affairs
from March 26, 1867, to April 21, 1869, when he retired, and
devoted himself to farming and preaching; died in Happy Valley,
Carter County, Tenn., April 1, 1887; interment in the old Taylor
private cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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