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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeRobert Love TAYLOR
(1850-1912)
Senate Years of Service:
1907-1912Party: DemocratTAYLOR, Robert Love, (son
of Nathaniel Green Taylor and brother of Alfred Alexander Taylor),
a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee; born in Happy
Valley, Carter County, Tenn., July 31, 1850; attended Pennington
Seminary in New Jersey, and Buffalo Institute, Milligan, Tenn.;
studied law in Jonesboro, Tenn.; admitted to the bar in 1878 and
practiced in Elizabethton and Jonesboro; elected as a Democrat to
the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1880 and for election in
1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; practiced law and also engaged
in the newspaper business in Johnson City, Tenn., in 1880;
presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1884 and 1892;
pension agent at Knoxville, Tenn., 1885-1887; Governor of Tennessee
1887-1891; resumed the practice of law in Chattanooga, Tenn.;
lecturer; Governor of Tennessee 1897-1899; elected as a Democrat to
the United States Senate in 1907 and served from March 4, 1907,
until his death in Washington, D.C., March 31, 1912; chairman,
Committee on the Geological Survey (Sixty-second Congress);
interment in the Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.; reinterred in
Monta Vista Cemetery, Johnson City, Tenn., in 1938.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Robinson, Daniel. Bob Taylor and the Agrarian
Revolt in Tennessee. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1935; Taylor, James. The Life and Career of Senator
Robert Love Taylor (Our Bob). Nashville: Bob Taylor Publishing
Co., 1913.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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