Ezra Booth Taylor (July 9, 1823 – January 29, 1912) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a

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from

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from 1880 to 1893. He won election to the congressional seat that had been vacated by James Garfield after he was elected

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Biography

Taylor was born in

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and attended the common and select schools and academies. He studied law and was

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and commenced practice in Portage County in 1845. Taylor was elected prosecuting attorney in 1854 and moved to

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, in 1861.

Civil War

During the

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, he enrolled as a private in Company A, One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio Infantry, on April 27, 1864. He was mustered into service on May 5, 1864, and was honorably discharged on August 20, 1864.

Congress

Taylor was elected judge of the court of common pleas for the ninth judicial district of Ohio and served from March 1877 to September 1880, when he resigned. Taylor was elected as a

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to the Forty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James A. Garfield. He was re-elected to the Forty-seventh and the five succeeding Congresses and served from December 13, 1880, to March 3, 1893. He was an outspoken opponent of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, arguing that Chinese immigrants were being singled out by laborers on the West Coast. He served as chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary ( Fifty-first Congress) but declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1892. After leaving office.

Personal life

He resumed the practice of his profession. He died in

, on January 29, 1912, and was interred in the Warren mausoleum at Oakwood Cemetery. In 1849, Taylor was married in

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to Harriet M. Frazier, who died in 1876. They had a daughter and a son. The former, Harriet Taylor Upton was a famous suffragist and author.

References

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